Scott Adams
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Oh my gosh, I have this idea.
Or there's something called hypnagogic thought.
And this takes place just before you're going to sleep.
You know, it's a twilight period.
It's hypnagogic.
I taught a lot of people how to do this.
A lot of founders, creative people throughout my career are
I helped a lot of people in creativity.
Hypnagogics is, Thomas Edison used it.
He would be sleeping under his workbench, right?
And people thought he was just an old guy that was tired.
True, and he was a cranky old guy that was tired, he was cantankerous.
But he would hold these two balls in his hand, sleeping underneath his workbench, and there'd be two pie plates.
And he would have a secretary,
sitting next to him while he was dozing off.
And as soon as he dropped these steel balls into the pie plates, he would start uttering out everything that was in his mind without analyzing it.
And she would write it down feverishly.
He claims that's how he discovered the tungsten metal for the light bulb.
It was a stream of consciousness.
And Albert Einstein used it.