SoA

I am a big fan of SoA.

SoA = Suspension of Attention
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It's the idea of letting your brain use a distracting activity to make it so that higher order thoughts and ideas can bubble up to a conscious level where you can analyze and articulate them.  It's from my good friends at Pathwise.

Some ways to get into a state of SoA that work for me:
- brushing my teeth
- walking
- driving (aka windshield time, which works great for me and @arryinSeattle for mutual windshield time)
- washing dishes
- putting away dishes
- cleaning up the house

Reid Hoffman calls it "where do you do your best thinking".  And he compiled all those places by his guests into this one podcast.
And as a side note, it is a fantastic episode if you're also on your journey to find your big idea.  Timing is more important than the idea.  Knowing yourself is more important than the big idea.