Why Your Best Thoughts Happen in the Shower or When Walking

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Here's what people really need to gain deeper access to their creativity, explains Cytowic

and body or why it seems to release a stream of creative thoughts about a problem that may have vexed you?your brain has to work with at any given moment. This biological limit is why trying to multitask so often degrades performance and leads to mistakes.

An additional benefit of the shower is that its white noise blocks outside stimulation. The roar of the water produces partial sensory deprivation, taking bandwidth that would have been used for other perceptions and shunting it to the mental space the mind uses to wander. Ideas incubating in the background can rise to consciousness and lead you past a creative impasse.

Carving out mental space and freeing the mind of deliberate thought is a proven incubator of creative insight. The lack of outside stimulation can lead to the state of “flow,” in which we are deeply, if absentmindedly, engaged with inner contemplations. Two widely agreed features of “shower thoughts” are that they are insights from the subconscious and the result ofSometimes breakthroughs occur in an “aha” moment. Two features of this kind of insight are the need for relative mental quiet and the suddenness with which they arrive when not intentionally thinking about the problem at hand.—activity that grounds us in the present moment. Famous walkers attest to walking’s benefits and shed insight on solitary activities.

Showers and walking can be meditative experiences and opportunities for introspection and reflection. They are also times when great ideas can pop into our heads.

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