Be smarter at work, slack off - Mar. 17, 2006
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Saved by 8 people (3 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-04-05
- Filmg33k on 2006-08-04 - Tags my stuff
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- Spikeymp on 2006-07-26 - Tags act , mike , toolbar bookmarks
- Noondesertsky on 2006-07-04 - Tags business , consulting , creativity , culture , society
- April_ on 2006-05-09 - Tags business , creativity , effectiveness , innovation
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What scientists have only recently begun to realize is that people may do their best thinking when they are not concentrating on work at all. If you've ever had a great idea pop into your head while you were washing your car, walking your dog, or even napping, you already know what a team of Dutch psychologists revealed last month in the journal Science: The unconscious mind is a terrific solver of complex problems when the conscious mind is busy elsewhere or, perhaps better yet, not overtaxed at all.
This brings us back to Archimedes, whose "Eureka!" moment in the bath -- or, to cite another example, Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity while loafing around under an apple tree -- was a classic example of a kind of creativity known as remote association, or associative thinking. As the name implies, it's a knack for seeing connections among things that appear on the surface to be unrelated to each other.
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