A Simple And Powerful Technique For Remembering ALL Your Shower Thoughts

Rodney Denno
7 min readFeb 8, 2021

I used to be horrible at remembering my shower thoughts. Not any more!

You’re in the shower. The warm water is gently relaxing your body. You feel like you’re finally able to take a break from intensely focusing on problems and just enjoy life for a few minutes. You’ve just started to lather up when suddenly, you’re hit with a flash of insight. Then another and another.

Yes! You finally have a solution to that business problem you’ve struggled with for days. Then you’re hit with a brilliant idea for a story to write. Oh crap, the insights just keep coming. Now you’re trying to remember four or five different ideas and lots of details. All of them are brilliant of course!

You rush through your shower routine, cycling through the various insights you’ve had so you don’t forget them. But, by the time you towel off, a couple of insights feel like they’ve already spiraled down the drain with the last of the shower water. And, the others are fading fast.

It doesn’t have to be that way

We all get these kinds of thoughts. And they don’t happen only in the shower. Long drives, short walks, mowing the lawn, cooking, cleaning, daydreaming. All have the right mix of monotony and engagement. That’s what’s needed…

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Rodney Denno
Rodney Denno

Written by Rodney Denno

Curious and Analytical — by Nature. Father, Writer, Inventor, Speaker, Educator, YouTuber, Technologist, Entrepreneur, Executive — by Choice. rodneydenno.com

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