Your Friday Quote
I find going to bed and pulling my imagination over my head often means waking up with a solution to a design problem. That state of limbo, the time between sleeping and waking, seems to allow ideas to somehow outflank the sentinels of common sense.
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Very much related to one of my favorite quotes - often attributed to Albert Einstein - which I will paraphrase/mangle here:
"I do my best thinking while in any of the three B's: In Bed, In the Bath or on the Bus."
I find that my subconscious is often much better able to tackle a problem than my cluttered, conscious mind - which is usually spinning too fast to grab onto anything good that might pop up. Bed, Bath and Bicycling are my 3 B's, and I couldn't agree more.
Science seems to support a "daydream hypothesis" of preparing one's mind and then relaxing it to get ideas flowing:
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/hard-works...
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