CNN reported on an interesting study done by the good folks over at Harvard’s Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (maybe you’ve heard of them).
According to them, the brain’s “default setting” is to daydream. In fact, we’ve got quite a bit of hardware to support it.
“There is this network of regions that always seems to be active when you don’t give people something to do,” psychologist Malia Mason said.
Science now seems to provide reasoning to something creatives have known all along.
Ideas come out of nowhere at the oddest of times.
When your brain is down, it’s jumping from thought to thought, not really focusing on anything. It seems to be the best way to do free-thinking without constraints. Trouble is, you have to do nothing, to do it.
Make sure you always carry a pen and paper. Let yourself drift off every once and awhile. Then, when that idea hits out of nowhere, you’ll be ready to capture it.
For instance, I always have to carry pen and paper when I drive. Ideas seem to always hit me when I’m on the open road, ready to succumb to highway hypnosis.
