I don't get to do that very often so to just have a completely free evening where your mind is relaxed enough to read a book is exquisite.
And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.
Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.
You practice, you prepare, just go out, and let it flow. Just go play ball. You have to go out there and play loose and play free.
The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.
I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in
When the mind is un-agitated, when the mind is calm, that mind is most conducive to creative problem solving.
In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.
I want to run with a relaxed mind.
I am permanently relaxed.
It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake.
