When do you get your best ideas? When you're sitting at your desk striving for an answer, or when you're doing something off-task like driving, walking, or puttering around the house? Humans are a daydreaming species. A daydream is that fountain spurting, spilling strange new thoughts into the stream of consciousness. And these spurts turn out to be surprisingly useful. Those who are more prone to mind-wandering tend to be better at generating new ideas.
If this all sounds like scientific justification for afternoon naps, long showers, and Russian literature, you’re right.
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