How to Have More ‘Shower Thoughts’

People say that they get their best ideas in the shower, but if you want to have more great ideas that doesn’t mean you need to take more showers. When you take a shower, you are alone with your thoughts, and you can’t pick up your phone to distract yourself because you are focused on the task of bathing. The shower is one of the few spaces where there are no distractions. You can have more “shower thoughts” without having to take more showers. You can have them while you’re waiting in line at the grocery store, waiting to meet your friend for coffee, or eating a meal alone. You simply have to put your phone down and allow your thoughts to wander unimpeded by distractions. But as soon as you pick up that phone, as soon as you indulge in the distraction, you have cut yourself off from shower thoughts. I don’t envy Gen Z with their digital native upbringing. That is why those kids have anxiety. They never learned how to sit with discomfort, boredom, and doubt.