Comments on: How Do You Get Your Best Ideas? https://lauravanderkam.com/2011/02/how-do-you-get-your-best-ideas/ Writer, Author, Speaker Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:23:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Kario https://lauravanderkam.com/2011/02/how-do-you-get-your-best-ideas/#comment-19462 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:23:07 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/blog/?p=1126#comment-19462 I’m a shower thinker too! I will have ideas floating around, or a rough draft sort of started. Then I take a shower and somehow the paragraphs come together. The key for me is to be able to sit down and type up the newly-congealed ideas soon after the shower. I thought I was the only one with this weird process….

Long outside jogs or walks are more for mulling over bigger things, like worries about family, work, career direction, etc.

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2011/02/how-do-you-get-your-best-ideas/#comment-19461 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:09:19 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/blog/?p=1126#comment-19461 In reply to Nancy.

@Nancy- that is not the case in my household, where the kids have not yet figured out that bathroom doors are supposed to stay shut when people are inside. We have to warn guests about locking the door!

]]> By: Nancy https://lauravanderkam.com/2011/02/how-do-you-get-your-best-ideas/#comment-19460 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:04:42 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/blog/?p=1126#comment-19460 Definitely a “shower thought” person. Only time no one can interrupt me.

]]> By: Brie https://lauravanderkam.com/2011/02/how-do-you-get-your-best-ideas/#comment-19459 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:05:12 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/blog/?p=1126#comment-19459 Definitely when I run outside, especially after I’ve spent a lot of time “forcing” myself to think of a practical solution/option/etc.
Also, for some bizarre reason, when in the shower. I think it has something to do with the mind being relaxed that allows ideas to flow.

]]> By: Justin Wehr https://lauravanderkam.com/2011/02/how-do-you-get-your-best-ideas/#comment-19458 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:56:36 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/blog/?p=1126#comment-19458 You might be interested in a cursory survey I did on my blog asking people where/when they do their best thinking. Results here: http://wehrintheworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/whenwhere-people-do-their-best-thinking.html

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