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Anecdotally, Americans tend to shower more often than Europeans. Perhaps this explains why more tech innovation tends to happen in America these days? I suspect a major cause of the shower gap is energy price gap, leading one to conclude that cheap energy increases innovation!
It fails to explain why Japanese people who shower literally everyday don't lead innovations...
“If you’ve ever emerged from the shower or returned from walking your dog with a clever idea or a solution to a problem you’d been struggling with, it may not be a fluke.” Did we really need someone to tell us this? Do people just assume everything is a fluke until some higher authority tells you otherwise?
It’s a “fluke” in that you don’t always get this effect. But sometimes you do. And some people never do. How strong is the correlation? What’s the mechanism of causation? That’s where the science comes in.
Anecdotally, Americans tend to shower more often than Europeans. Perhaps this explains why more tech innovation tends to happen in America these days? I suspect a major cause of the shower gap is energy price gap, leading one to conclude that cheap energy increases innovation!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah so elderly couple in Germany allows you to conclude that the whole of Europe showers less than your household, a household which is also representative of the whole American continent, did I get that right?
I'm sure like everything else, times have changed and Western Europe and the US are now more similar (if not the same) in their shower habits. But I'd like to provide another anecdote just for fun, from 6 years of living in Spain beginning 20 years ago. It was, at that time, certainly considered unique to shower every day, in a mid-sized northern Spain city. Unless every other friend in my residencia was weird in thi…
“If you’ve ever emerged from the shower or returned from walking your dog with a clever idea or a solution to a problem you’d been struggling with, it may not be a fluke.” Did we really need someone to tell us this? Do people just assume everything is a fluke until some higher authority tells you otherwise?
“If you’ve ever emerged from the shower or returned from walking your dog with a clever idea or a solution to a problem you’d been struggling with, it may not be a fluke.” Did we really need someone to tell us this? Do people just assume everything is a fluke until some higher authority tells you otherwise?
This effect used to be the bane of my ADHD-addled existence until I found these: https://www.myaquanotes.com/ . I buy them in 5 packs now.
This article's explanation, on the other hand, fits the DMN moniker better: it's what your brain does when it isn't doing anything. If psychedelics replace a default value with an uninitialized variable, then the resulting behavior is undefined.
This would explain why so-called "set and setting" are so important while experiencing psychedelics. A preoccupied mind doesn't use the DMN. So it would follow that a preoccupied mind wouldn't benefit as much from a suppressed DMN, because it wouldn't have any reason to try activating it.