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Brilliant thoughts visit people in the shower: here are 10 compelling examples

Have you ever noticed that while takingsoul our brain starts to work much better? When we relax and stay alone, feeling the drops of water on ourselves, sometimes truly brilliant thoughts come to mind. Sometimes they are just funny, but it also happens that the ideas that have arisen in the head help solve very serious problems in life that at times seemed insurmountable. Scientists have long known about this phenomenon and are trying to give it an accurate explanation through psychological experiments. Recently, scientists conducted a study in which they once again proved that all this really works. And we found some brilliant ideas that came to people while taking a shower

Taking a shower helps people find a way out of even the most serious problems.

Why does the head work better in the shower?

In fact, scientists have long put forward verya plausible explanation for the miraculous effect of showering on human thinking. According to them, a person solves problems better not as a result of complete immersion in thoughts - usually the solution comes by chance, when the person’s mind is relaxed. Good ideas can come up not only while taking a shower, but also when a person works in the garden, watches a good movie, enjoys a walk in nature, and so on. After all, it’s not without reason that productivity experts advise regular walks in the fresh air?

Scientists believe that the best ideas come when a person is relaxed.

Why being a little distracted helps you make better decisionsproblems, scientists do not know. This is most likely due to the fact that when a person is relaxed, he is visited by a huge number of thoughts without any restrictions, and some of them hit the mark - sometimes the ideas turned out to be brilliant.

Scientists have proved the reality of this many timesphenomena during experiments. Their essence was mainly that people were given a task - some volunteers looked for a solution right away, while others could think while watching a movie and other activities. As a result, it turned out that more interesting answers were given by participants in the experiments who were more relaxed.

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How to improve brain function

Recently Cognitive Science Professor Zach Irving(Zac Irving) decided to conduct a new experiment without making the mistake of the previous ones. Previously, scientists gave people tasks and distracted them with distant actions like regularly pressing a button. Instead, the author of a new scientific work offered the participants of his experiment more familiar activities.

222 people took part in the new experimentvolunteers, most of whom were women. They were asked to come up with as many alternative uses for bricks or paper clips as they could within 90 seconds. After they turned in their options, they were divided into two groups: one watched a three-minute segment of When Harry Met Sally, and the other watched a video of men folding laundry. However, they were not told that after viewing they would be asked to supplement their previous answers with new options.

How many alternative uses for bricks can you think of?

When asked to do so, the first groupparticipants offered some more interesting options. The second group also completed the answers, but coped with this task much worse. As a result of scientific work, it was concluded that to improve fantasy, it is not enough just to be distracted - it is important that the activity is interesting. The first group of people was engaged in watching a fragment of an interesting film, and the second group just sat and got bored in front of a boring video.

So, if a person is concerned about anyproblems, it is better not to load your head with this for days on end. Instead, it’s better to take a shower, take a walk in nature, or get distracted in any other way. The main thing is that a person is interested and thoughts of any kind can freely visit him - over time, the very necessary idea can visit his head.

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Brilliant thoughts from ordinary people

That while taking a shower head sometimesvisit brilliant thoughts, knows a lot of people. There is even a community on Reddit where people share their genius ideas. Here is some of them.

The one who created the tradition of not seeing the bride inwedding dress in advance, saved countless husbands from spending hours shopping in search of a dress and will forever be a hero — Yorkshire45

We laugh at dogs that wonderhearing dogs barking on TV. But if the TV was a continuous stream of unintelligible sounds, and then suddenly someone spoke to you in your language, you would be scared as hell, too - Biles

As a child, we do not realize that we are watching our parents grow up - zjb55446

If elevators hadn't been invented, all CEOs' offices would be on the first floor and emphasize their importance - someone with a deleted account

Eleven children were born in Antarctica, and none of them died in infancy. This means Antarctica has the lowest infant mortality rate of 0% - pluey200

Gummy worms have more bones than real ones - edgememeston

It would be cool if after death you could see the 5 best moments when you were on the verge of death - TerminalGay

"Avatar", being the highest grossing film of alltime does not seem to have had any effect on the culture. No one has referenced the movie and no one has talked about it since it was released 10 years ago - SilentWalrus92

Coffee makes us energetic, but coffee shopsdesigned to make people relax. At the same time, alcohol relaxes, but bars and clubs are designed to keep people energetic - ybarraymapea

The night before the weekend is more satisfying than the weekend itself - someone with a deleted account

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