There’s a reason, after all, that many of our most creative ideas and insights occur when we’re in the shower: it’s one of the very few contexts in which we allow our brains to relax, to wander, and in a sense, to play. (This used to also be true for walking, but now so many of us text or listen to podcasts on our walks that they no longer really qualify as downtime.) When we spend all of our time scrolling and surfing, listening and watching—in other words, when we spend all our time consuming—we’re spraying our brains with an unrelenting fire hose of information and giving them no chance to
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