“It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.”
I guarantee if you read this you’ll think about it the next time you take a shower.
Paul Graham explains why it’s important to pay attention to the top idea in your mind and suggests the idea that surfaces whenever you have a moment to let your mind wander benefits from that type of thinking while other ideas are starved of it.
Related: 50 benefits of forcing yourself to think of 50 ideas.