Lots of people are inspired by the presence of water, whether they’re strolling along a beach, taking a shower or even listening to water running or to a soundtrack of waves hitting the shore. The Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer Archimedes was said to have discovered the principles around density and buoyancy as he drew a bath, and songwriter Pharrell Williams begins each morning the same way: “I shower, and that’s where a lot of my concepts come from,” Pharrell told Fast Company. He even composes songs under a nozzle. “If you don’t interrupt (your subconscious) with the ego, or
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