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Have you ever had a great idea or a burst of insight while taking a shower? Well, it turns out that shower thoughts are more than just an internet phenomenon, and understanding them better can help us harness their power for good!
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Whoever invented waterproof whiteboards is an absolute legend.
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Newton ?! C'mon, THE original eureka moment happened to Archimedes in his bath.
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This is also the exact way writer's block over a key scene gets solved. The "I've bloody got it!" moment that completely unlocks the story/script you've been working on for months or even years.
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While working on my PhD I was struggling with some intricate problems with the software I was developing. But then I suddenly realized how I could restructure the program to solve those problems and also make it much simpler. And that revelation literally came to me in the shower.
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Then there is the story about Archimedes. You know, the Greek guy who kind of invented the "Eureka!" moment.
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Explains why I get wicked writers block when Iām busy (and why I come up with fanfic ideas when Iām brainstorming while falling asleep).
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I'd love to see you cover the idea of self-fulfilling prophecies
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I wish this woman was my teacher. So articulate, clear and good vibe
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I dunno that I have any bright ideas in the shower, but I certainly have A-ha moments.
I sing a lot of 80's stuff.
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Oh, that's neat! Personally, insights mostly strike me when I'm sitting and sewing (a quiet activity which lets my mind wander), or when I'm in bed, or the shower, or while cooking. Some of my favourite ones are:
-The song I composed in the shower (I'm usually kinda bad at songwriting, but that one turned out really nice! I'd been thinking about a river I went to as a kid that was strewn with yellow leaves, and rereading the Lord Of The Rings, and they suddenly connected and gave me a nice metaphor about the river using imagery from LothlĆ³rien, which led to the rest of the song coming together)
-Roughly six different scenes for a novel I'm slowly writing that came to me as I fell asleep while I felt like I had writer's block (and I bolted awake to write them down each time!!)
-The idea I got for a fanfiction while I was frying eggs (I wanted to write about Nog from DS9 and what it was like for him at Starfleet Academy, but I had no idea where to start, so I mulled it over for a few days but then kinda gave up. Then when I was frying eggs for breakfast, a scene with him exploring San Francisco the day before he started classes came to me, and the rest of the fic came together around it)
-And last but not least, the time I was sewing and suddenly understood a part of A Wizard Of Earthsea that had confused me around a week prior (it was the part where Ged was on the tiny isle with the two old people, and the old woman handed him a broken ring. I didn't understand it until that moment, but remembering the synopsis I'd heard of the Tombs Of Atuan, I guessed it was the ring of Erreth-Akbe. I was so delighted when I was proven right!!)
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I absolutely experience the eureka effect. For me, it doesn't come in the shower, though. It very consistently comes in the morning - the moments as I emerge into consciousness.
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I'm so glad Brit joined SciShow. She's absolutely my favorite host.
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Not a shower thought, but I just realized that this presenter is really good! Her excitement about what she's talking about feels genuine and her comedic timing is also great. Been listening to Scishow for years and never really had a favorite presenter, until now :) Well, favorite outside of the man himself, Hank Green!
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I proffer that it is because this is the environment where we feel most relaxed and are in a state that is highly conducive to free association and that is where new and novel ideas(highdeas) arise !!! Peaced.
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Old school (and just old) PC gamers may remember that a shower thought by a Blizzard North employee was critical to Diablo 2. (Specifically how to stream data in the background to avoid loading screens within a zone.)
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Yeah,the first 5 minutes of a shower is spent getting clean and the next 15 minutes so is spent on pondering the meaning of the universe and answering life's most difficult questions... With a minute of two of swearing after I nick my legs with the razor!
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I experience shower thoughts regularly. Happy to see the science behind it!
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2:00 Man, then I really do know what I'm talking about when I tell people I like to process problems "passively" over time - turns out i've been using incubation for a long time now. Even when I'm programming, often times I feel the need to just, zone out for a moment and take in the big picture, to mull things over before continuing.
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Am I the only one who has literally never gotten any bright ideas in the shower? I'm just shampooing my hair and my brain goes š my brightest idea be like maybe I'll wash my feet next āļø
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