i'm convinced swimming helps my creativity,
sometimes wonderful ideas arrive while I'm swimming.
I've had several song ideas or lines arrive while I'm in the pool. Sometimes I'll get out to write them down.
Lately I just try to remember them and write them down after practice.
anyone have any comments or stories on how swimming helps or fosters your creativity?
Or is this board full of non creative drones?
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Numbers, numbers everywhere.
I tend to do things like factor the lap # that I am on into primes, compute relative primes to it, percentages of distance gone or to go and all sorts of other mathematical things. I think about technique quite a bit as well.
I also use it as a way of subconscious processing - in college/grad school, if I couldn't solve a math problem, I would review it right before sleep and then, most of the time, when I got up in the morning, I could just write the answer down. Swimming long distances seems to work the same way for me.
-LBJ
Numbers, numbers everywhere.
I tend to do things like factor the lap # that I am on into primes, compute relative primes to it, percentages of distance gone or to go and all sorts of other mathematical things. I think about technique quite a bit as well.
I also use it as a way of subconscious processing - in college/grad school, if I couldn't solve a math problem, I would review it right before sleep and then, most of the time, when I got up in the morning, I could just write the answer down. Swimming long distances seems to work the same way for me.
-LBJ
