Vacation time is good time. It’s
easy to opine that although vacations are fun, but are totally unproductive. I
sometimes feel otherwise. Although for
the most part of a day, I laze around. But it is in these periods of lazing
around, our sub-conscious does miracles. Chances are, the longer our brains are
unoccupied, the deeper we can dive into our sub-conscious and churn out
thoughts, interests, plans or epiphanies, so to say. I still remember that BBT
episode where I formally encountered this idea; Sheldon Cooper, stuck with a
particularly complex research problem, tries to take up menial jobs, so that
some part of his brain (In my dictionary it is sub-conscious, although there is some other scientific
name for it) can concentrate on the problem in the background. He finally
succeeds, working as a waiter in the restaurant. Then again, there is an
episode where he resolves to make his day-to-day decisions by throw of a dice,
so that, the major part of his brain can focus on his research in the
background. Such realizations can be phenomenal and occur in the fraction of a
second – like that moment when Mr. Nash stumbled upon his million dollar idea
of best group strategy in a competitive environment in ‘A Beautiful mind’.
It sure feels funny to be quoting
movies and TV series here rather than more authentic sources, but I believe a
good amount of research goes into these and at-least the scientific material
presented can be trusted.
Let’s recognize the power of
sub-conscious and try to consciously use it.
Cheers,
Pradeep.
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