
269: Where Do Epiphanies Come From, Acting different w different people, Self-destructive behavior
Beat Your Genes Podcast
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Dreams Facilitate a Lot of Created Problem Solving
When you shut down the analytic mind as it's now not glaring at this problem, and you go away, then the adaptive unconscious can start to wander around looking for things. This is very much akin to after working on a jigsaw puzzle and you get stumped, cause you actually don't know what the puzzle is but you're just going on little correlational elements of thepece. You don't even know what you're looking at yet. And that is when youo, you bolt up out of bed, and you're like, got it. That's what it is. In a flash, it arrives, you know, just really, you're not even thinking about it
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