Dreaming in the Shower
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Cameron Moll has an interesting blog post up about the “creative pause” we experience in the shower. Creative pause is the “shift from being fully engaged in a creative activity to being passively engaged, or the shift to being disengaged altogether.” You move from a structured thinking to a stream of thinking.
Of course, when I want to complete a structured task, I don’t want to be in the shower. The desk is better environment for completing structured tasks. But the shower is great for brainstorming in an unstructured manner. Shifting your brain into a more relaxed state allows you to attack a problem from a different direction.
I find that a lot of my most creative thinking happens in the shower. The shower helps me develop my thoughts in new directions. It’s also a place for me to escape from stress or cluttered thoughts. These two ideas build on the fact that deliberate breaks can be helpful to problem solving.
