If this is true, them pursuit of mindfulness (training your mind to suppress spontaneous thoughts) while a powerful tool to enhance productivity has a negative side. It suppresses spontaneous creative thinking. Or does it produce a clear mental space into which creative thoughts can intrude and not be lost due to distractions? I feel like I'm in a mental squirrel cage going round and round and getting nowhere.
Why Your Best Thinking Is in the Shower (2014)
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#12That's because 'you' don't do it. The guy who runs your brain when you're not using it does it. :)
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#13That is why I have a bath... and I have tablet with stylus (in case). Always get crazy ideas.
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#14So this means that low flow EPA rated showerheads are driving innovation in this country by making my normal 4 min shower takes 25+?
This comment exhibits how far the propaganda of energy efficiency has gone
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#15If this is true, them pursuit of mindfulness (training your mind to suppress spontaneous thoughts) while a powerful tool to enhance productivity has a negative side. It suppresses spontaneous creative thinking. Or does it produce a clear mental space into which creative thoughts can intrude and not be lost due to distractions? I feel like I'm in a mental squirrel cage going round and round and getting nowhere.
I understand exactly what you mean. But expert practitioners say that this is only the initial and the hardest phase and that it can be overcome with practice. What lies beyond is another question, but I want to trust that I will be able to get there and experience it first hand.
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#16Does anyone else forget if they washed their hair of not while having an epiphany?
Also, I feel weird telling anyone it came to me while I was in the shower. Like I'm putting the image of me in the shower in their head.
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#17Does anyone else forget if they washed their hair of not while having an epiphany? Also, I feel weird telling anyone it came to me while I was in the shower. Like I'm putting the image of me in the shower in their head.
I also forget. Thankfully hair-washing is an idempotent operation for guys :) .
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#18I keep telling people I do my best work in the shower, and they always think I'm pulling a lewd joke. I'm fully serious though, most of my good ideas have come to me in the shower, weird as it may sound. I'm glad to read I'm not alone in this!
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#19Personally Ive always thought it's because it's devoid of external sensory inputs other than white noise. The mind is able to think for itself rather than respond to the world.
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#20If this is true, them pursuit of mindfulness (training your mind to suppress spontaneous thoughts) while a powerful tool to enhance productivity has a negative side. It suppresses spontaneous creative thinking. Or does it produce a clear mental space into which creative thoughts can intrude and not be lost due to distractions? I feel like I'm in a mental squirrel cage going round and round and getting nowhere.
Here's what David Lynch, an avid practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, has to say about it:
http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/david_lynch_explains_how_...