TWILIGHT THINKING

How do you get ideas to fuel your creativity for writing, training or problem-solving? I will describe one of my methods. Many of the ideas for this article came during the short period between sleeping and waking. To me it is a twilight zone. It happens for about 10 to 20 minutes while I wake up in the morning. It also happens for a few minutes when I get out of bed during the night. In either case, I may jot down a quick note about an idea. These are special times when there are fewer concerns about the quality of the idea. My need to ground ideas in “reality” is not present. I call the thinking I do during these times “twilight thinking.” It is a critical component of my learning, creative, and problem-solving processes.