The Top Idea in Your Mind

A very closely related idea is that most people have a "ground state": an activity that they naturally gravitate toward when nothing else intervenes. For many people, their ground state is shopping, or talking with friends, or watching tv. Nothing wrong with any of these. For some people, their ground state is aimless coding, or writing, or drifting around some community (e.g., the community of actors, or musicians, etc). Again, nothing wrong with any of these, and they may be…

"Everyone who's worked on difficult problems is probably familiar with the phenomenon of working hard to figure something out, failing, and then suddenly seeing the answer a bit later while doing something else" Uncanny how much this happens, I'll be playing Smash or eating cereal when I have sudden moments of clarity on problems I've been at for days

Yes there's already a philosophy of "ambient thinking" "Only ideas won by walking have any value" - Nietzsche A problem I've noticed is that most people who engage in business forget to make time for walking. They are often bad judges of "efficiency", not too good at juggling process priority. Fortunately our unconscious brain is an expert at it. You just need to take the time to listen to it.