go ahead, slack off

We're overworked, overstressed, over-everything (except paid, right?). So, give your brain some rest... to produce the best ideas, says this CNN article:

What scientists have only recently begun to realize is that people may do their best thinking when they are not concentrating on work at all. If you've ever had a great idea pop into your head while you were washing your car, walking your dog, or even napping, you already know what a team of Dutch psychologists revealed last month in the journal Science: The unconscious mind is a terrific solver of complex problems when the conscious mind is busy elsewhere or, perhaps better yet, not overtaxed at all.

And, off to the coffee room I go!