Take longer showers to free up your creative brain to help your rational brain solve problem.s
Simon Sinek offers great advice on his blog: Take longer showers. The reason for the advice is that our creative brains have access to a larger and richer source of information than our thinking brains:
Our rational brains can access the equivalent of about 2 feet of information around us. Our subconscious brains can access the equivalent of 11 acres of information around us. Every experience, every lesson, every mistake, every success is all stored away and your brain has the capacity to access that information, even though you’re not conscious of it.
It’s this access to additional data that explains our “gut” feelings, intuitions, hunches, or, as he says, that something just feels right.
Now to find a way to capture that insight in the shower when you have it so you don’t have to keep repeating it to yourself until you’re dry and can find a pen or keyboard!
