Eureka bitches! The Science of Shower

"Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it that makes a difference." 

Nolan Bushnell.

You know you shouldn't be slacking off like this, a couch potato. Get up! It's way past twelve in the cloudy Saturday noon and you promised yourself that you will confront whatever that consumed half of your worries. Whether it was a homework accompanied with a deadline, a model that your teacher requires you to do or a presentation, you promised yourself that you will finish it, regardless of how nonsense your method is.

But there you are, slacking off. Wondering and worried, rather than putting your wasted thoughts into efforts. Maybe I need a clean start, a refreshment. A bath, precisely. Leaving the couch half-heartedly, you walked towards the cubicle-looking bathroom. Let's get started, your mind lied. You began to undress yourself, standing naked. Your fingers ran through the thermostat, turning the knob, every inch to right. Heat! 

In the shower, with the hot water coming down on yourself, thoughts begun it's way up into your mind. Thoughts led to ideas. Ideas led to problems. Problems seemed simple. You begun working up solutions. Creativity. Creative solutions. More ideas. Thoughts. Problems. Solution. A chain. A marvellous chain of wonders of thoughts. In a shower? 

Knock, knock! The Dark ages and the abnormally long Renaissance period have waded it's way through, yet we never really began accepting things that seem and deemed to be illogical right? To those who are reading this post out there, for your kind information and additional knowledge, bathroom is in fact the greatest studio that lets our thoughts and imaginations fly without borders nor restrictions.

Trust me, the occurrence of ideas isn't nearly a happenstance, but indeed a solid model of the renowned theory called "creative pause", first coined by Dr. Edward de Bono.

Creative pause is the easiest and the simplest method to enhance your brain's creative thinking ability. Creative pause is not a process of chained events that leads to creative solutions. There's a difference. Tadaaa, take it lazy buns! Creative pause is literally you clearing out every possible distractions in your head, including your sorrows, worries, disgust towards Kim Kardashian, dread for another burger and (especially) that Morgan Freeman voice that is narrating your life in your mind.

Brain Synapse

Science has given us some logical reasons why the Bathroom is the chamber that proves imaginations and thoughts. During showers, we are alone (some aren't, none of my problem), and that gives us a lot of space and time to reconsider events and thoughts that bothered us. With less or no distractions, our mind allows creative pause to take over, thus enabling the best of ideas to emerge.

While some of you geniuses might argue that the strong flowing of water accompanied with the sound it creates is indeed a distraction. Wrong! The subject of water is soft rather than distracting. The word water is synonymous to peace, calmness and quiet - the best conditions to enable creative pause to take over. The sound it makes is cited as white noise. White noise, similar to my previous point, is synonymous to calmness and helps mind to provoke creative thoughts easily.

And now the Award for the greatest idea ever discovered in the bathroom goes to ...

Archimedes!

Eureka bitches! 

Ever had your very own moment of genius in bathroom? Wish to share it? Tell me and I'll blog about it. Comment and follow, have fun.

TJ.