The science of why you have great ideas in the shower

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The science of why you have great ideas in the shower
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It has nothing to do with getting clean—and everything to do with your state of mind.

found that positive, constructive daydreaming—“characterized by planning, pleasant thoughts, vivid and wishful imagery, and curiosity”—is associated with activity in the default mode network and creativity.Whether we realize it or not, we all engage in mind-wandering on a regular basis, says Beaty, noting that there are different kinds.

To discover when people get their most innovative ideas, Schooler and his colleagues asked professional writers and physicists to keep a diary for two weeks, in which they reported their most creative idea of the day, what they were doing when it occurred, and whether it felt like an “aha” moment.

Immediately upon awakening from a full night’s sleep or even a 20-minute nap, Christoff recommends paying attention to thoughts and ideas that occur to you in that liminal state between being sound asleep and fully awake—that’s a time when your ideas are “often quite free-flowing,” she adds, which means you can tap your creative potential.

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