
The Unconscious
Overthink
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Having Insights in the Shower
i resonate with that idea of having insights at unexpected moments. People will talk a lot about insights that they have in the shower. I think for me it also often happens in the middle of the night, or when i first wake up,. One of my most important research breakthroughs recently happened just coincidentally, right as i was emerging out of a meditation. And because i am interested in the history of mathematics and the plosophy of mathematics, in spite of being terrible at mathematics, will never succeed in that field.
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