Being in the shower is awesome, you get some of the most amazing ideas, even if you forget them 3 minutes later. I don’t know about you but sometimes I feel very proud of thinking about what I think in the shower.
For example today I was thinking on writing a book about this subject, our constant need to keep our brain busy doing stuff. In modern history we have many examples that show that the cell phone is not our only problem, before that it was the TV, radio, newspaper, even some books.
Of course not every app, podcast, news, show, book, is bad but when you only consume stuff to keep your mind busy, you lose precious ideas that can help you to be more creative, productive, have more peace of mind (my favorite) and other useful stuff.
In my case I loved to read news, world news and everyday it was my beginning and end of the day. I was exited or sad because something happened that will probably will not affect me directly but I was happy, anyway. Fortunately, a read in some book (I don’t remember the name) that most of the content in a newspaper is noise, that so little of that content is going to be relevant in the following weeks or months, that a better idea is to avoid reading daily news and if you like to be informed about what is happening in the world is to read weekly or monthly publications, you are going to get only the most important and relevant information without the noise.
I will add that you can avoid media that is only purpose is to give general news, is better to select a subject that you can understand better and inform people around you with useful information.
Leaving your brain doing what it likes to do, think is awesome. You can “edit” information you get on the “wild” and give it a new meaning a new use, something similar to the videos “everything is a remix”. We need time, space for your brain to do that remix and get rewarded for it.
