In the shower is just about the best and worst place to think about those big ideas. It is the best place because no one talks to you. You are completely and totally alone with your thoughts for ten to twenty minutes and some pretty serious thinking can happen with that kind of quality time. Sadly, there is no place to write any of it down, so even if you come up with the cure for cancer in the shower chances you are not going to remember it when you get out. It's sort of like a dream in that sense because since it is only you thinking in the shower, you don't have to explain your thoughts to anyone or organize them in any way by writing them down, so they rarely make sense when you are done washing your hair none the less when you try to tell someone else about them.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Brain Tangents
Everyone's brain wanders around from time to time. When brains go off on these tangents, it can be hard to get them back on track. Unlike when classes purposefully try to get professors off on tangents to avoid boring lectures and in an attempt to learn something truly interesting, brain tangents can be rather annoying because just like the professors, you eventually have to get back to where you were. It's easy for a professor, they just look down at their lecture notes, but when your brain wanders, stuff doesn't get done because it gets forgotten about.
In the shower is just about the best and worst place to think about those big ideas. It is the best place because no one talks to you. You are completely and totally alone with your thoughts for ten to twenty minutes and some pretty serious thinking can happen with that kind of quality time. Sadly, there is no place to write any of it down, so even if you come up with the cure for cancer in the shower chances you are not going to remember it when you get out. It's sort of like a dream in that sense because since it is only you thinking in the shower, you don't have to explain your thoughts to anyone or organize them in any way by writing them down, so they rarely make sense when you are done washing your hair none the less when you try to tell someone else about them.
In the shower is just about the best and worst place to think about those big ideas. It is the best place because no one talks to you. You are completely and totally alone with your thoughts for ten to twenty minutes and some pretty serious thinking can happen with that kind of quality time. Sadly, there is no place to write any of it down, so even if you come up with the cure for cancer in the shower chances you are not going to remember it when you get out. It's sort of like a dream in that sense because since it is only you thinking in the shower, you don't have to explain your thoughts to anyone or organize them in any way by writing them down, so they rarely make sense when you are done washing your hair none the less when you try to tell someone else about them.
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