Got It?

Where do you get your best ideas? I bet it's not sitting in a classroom or in a cubical, I bet like most people it comes to you in the shower, in your car, just before going to, or during, sleep, or increasingly recently, just listening to an iPod. I say, “I believe in not knowing the answers…” If you let your intuition, subconscious, take over and find the answers for itself, it will be a lot less stressful on your conscious mind, in fact you can even take a nap while you work.

This theory not only applies to me, it is applicable worldwide. Like Sir Isaac Newton said to Halley about planetary motion,
Halley: “…but how do you know that (planetary motion)? Have you proved it?”
Newton: “Why, I’ve known it for years…give me a few days, I’ll certainly find you a proof...”

Like Isaac we may not have the proofs but we all have the answers, it's just not visible, it's tucked deep into our mind. It's commonly known that we only use about 10% of our brain. That’s a 90% void were information can be lost and forgotten, and some hypothesize that our subconscious is able to reach into that void and file through the lost files, and that’s how we get these moments where we finally find an answer in the most unsuspecting places.

For example, the night before my finals last year, I went with my family to dinner, I was stressing out though, I had my physics final the next day and I was stuck on this one problem.

A man slides down a slope some feet long at some degrees, at the bottom of the slope there was a rope hanging from the ceiling that was x feet long, if the mans velocity was v at the end of the slope and he grabbed the rope, how high would he go?

I knew that I learned about this a few weeks before and it was so easy back then, but know it just slipped my mind. And there I was sitting with my family when the waiter came with our food. And as he handed out our plates he accidentally taped the light with his elbow and that’s when I remembered.

I knew nothing happened except that his kinetic energy applied a force in the lamp wire causing it to accelerate to it's peak height before it's potential energy pulled it back to it's bottom position. And now I could prove that PE=KE. It was like a mental slap in the face, it was so simple. The next day when I had the same type of problem on the test I was able to finish it no problem.

Still not a believer, just slip this thought to your subconscious, let it meld for a while, go talk to friends listen to really loud music and drive somewhere, and let it hit you, it's the best slap in the face you’ll ever get.

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