When and where do you think?
Fred Jacobs had an excellent post on Bill Gates’ well publicized “Think Week”.
This definitely got me thinking again on this topic…
When do you do your best thinking? Come on. I mean really put thought into an issue, problem, opportunity, strategy, product line, competitor that you or your business is facing?
I personally get some of my best thoughts early in the morning at the office or during my triathlon training. Being outdoors, running or biking for a few hours really gets my mind in tune.
Bill Gates is able to get away for a
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My best thinking time? When I’m not thinking at all.
When I have a problem, any type of problem, I learn about it. I learn what the problem really is. If I already have a solution to solve it doing this process, everything is then perfect and had gone well (it’s rare). Otherwise, I stop to think about it. I start to work on another non-related thing; I go outside. Then, eventually, a hint will show up in my mind; a track to follow to resolve my problem. My unconsciousness has then talked.
Its how I work: I feed my unconsciousness with the problem then I let him think about it, waiting for a hint. Sometime the process can get some hours, days even months to work; everything depend of the problem to be solved.
