In this video, I'm going to share with you a brain hack or a tactic if you'd like to call it that way for creative problem solving and boosting your creativity by mixing, intense work and idle time, how does it work? So you have to keep in mind that when you're idle, your mind keeps working. And the thing that it keeps working on is the thing that most consumed you and most expressed your mind earlier, okay? It needs to work through it. So you can use your dreams, or a waking state to do so for example, let's say before going to sleep, you do you work on some puzzles, maybe like really difficult crossword puzzles or Sudoku puzzles or something like that, or maybe your work that you actually want to do. Then studies and multiple studies have shown that like, elements of that work, whatever the puzzle, you create, whatever that intense work was, it's gonna very likely appear in some sense perform in your sleep.

Now, sleep is totally random. And it's the most creative thing that's possible. In fact, it's so creative, it's outlandish. I mean, you can be on the moon on Mars One day, and then you're on one second, and chasing the dinosaur the next second. So it's a little dreams are a little bit too out there too weird. But sometimes if you wake up, you you can vividly remember a dream.

And you can sort of just have a note pad or notebook near your bed, quickly write down some of the things you remember from the dream. And just go back to sleep. Because if you wait too long, you'll just forget what was in your dream. But this way you'll remember and also, and then when you wake up completely, you'll be able to tell Hey, let me rewind, let's see what I wrote in the middle of the night and see what you came up with. Maybe we'll give some clues, some hints for solutions on some of the problems we're working on. Now for a little bit of a less drastic solution to this.

Just when you work and let's say you working on something intensely if you're stuck, or even if it's just a big project, take a break and work on it intensely And specifically, take a break, go for a walk. If you're at home, meditate a little bit, take a shower, if you need a shower that time, so basically do something that their mind can wander and can relax. And if you go for a walk, by the way, don't go for a walk, we just stare at your phone all day. or listen to music just do something in the park or in nature, like relaxing so that so that your mind can just freely wander and your mind will start working through creatively working through for new solutions on the problems that you didn't see when you were when your mind was consumed with the immediate task. Like when I was studying computer science in college, I had a teacher that specifically was like if you're stuck on some problem for a while and you feel like you've exhausted yourself.

Take a break. Don't keep pressuring yourself. Don't keep banging your head against the wall. And that was fantastic solution. It was just you know, you, you work on some rallo can can solve it, just take a break, come back to it, you start looking at it from different perspectives or maybe during the break, your brain will sort of by itself, be in the background work through some of the creative solutions to this problem that you're not seeing when you're directly approaching it. So that's kind of the mind pack to use, use that intense work and passive time for creative retrospection to solve big problems and come up with creative solutions and creative new solutions to problems.