Why Our Best Thoughts Come to Us in the Shower

We sometimes assume that good thinking happens in quiet rooms at large desks with views. But really, for a variety of fascinating reasons, it happens most often in the shower. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/rp8rJ Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/WK_zU FURTHER READING “We might suppose that the best place to think would be a large room with a big desk, plenty of natural light and a window with a view – perhaps onto water or a park. This is the premise behind the layout of most offices. The nearer one gets to the top, the closer one’s workstation will approximate to this supposed ideal: in tribute to the quality of thinking that, ideally, one would do there. Bosses tend to have big desks and even larger views. But these assumptions are not – in fact – really true to the way our minds work…” You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://goo.gl/i8EKFn MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on SELF in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLself SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ X: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Perrie Murphy https://vimeo.com/perriemurphy #TheSchoolOfLife Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices