I had a hard day, lots of data, many papers, many ideas crossing my mind, all ended in confusion, nothing was clear.
I went home and my wife said why do not you take a bath?
Under the shower, soaping me, suddenly, everything was fixed in my head.
But this always happens to me, the best ideas come while I am taking a shower.
It looks like someone did the experiment and found the same:
Why greater ideas come when you are not trying?
(Went to bath)
...
(came back from bath)
The problem is that sometimes an hour passes and I am still under the shower, and I realize that because my fingers get wrinkled.
PS: next post will be about ecology: stochastic aggregation.
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