When do you do your best creative thinking/problem solving?

emmarie · Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 31

I just read the "stop thinking" article in a post from April and it got me "thinking".

For me I get my best thoughts/ideas while I'm in the shower or drying my hair. I work on database design and during the day at work we would have these little impromptu meetings with our team to brainstorm problems and come up with new ideas. We'd be drawing things out on the whiteboard, taking notes and throwing out random ideas. At the end we'd have our solution and we'd all go our separate ways. Then I'd go home, eat dinner, watch tv, go to bed, wake up and take a shower and then . . . that's when all the holes in our ideas or solutions to problems we weren't able to solve would reveal themselves to me.

I'm not sure what it is about the shower for me, but I have an hour commute and I can tell you that what feels like mindlessly driving to work doesn't have the same effect. That times seems to focus my mind tooooo much on a problem and I get overwhelmed with the amount of information I'm trying to process.

mirara · Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Posts: 32

Ah, we have similar experience here, I also usually have more creative thinking in bathroom, I also don't know why, it's just pop-out ^^

mjstopgun · Joined: 02 Sep 2009 Posts: 23

my most creative time is about fifteen minutes before I go to bed. I hate it, because then i'm always really hyped up with my new ideas and I can't fall to sleep!

dawntomorn · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 6

I am most creative whenever I listen to music, read the news or any article and do some dancing. It's a good exercise and it helps me get worked up more to do things.
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JhonnySilk · Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 17