It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.

Paul Graham
About This Quote

Many a great man has said that it is in the shower that we do our best thinking. The problem with this quote is that it ignores the fact that life is full of things which we have to do whether we are thinking about them or not. In addition, the idea of doing a “really good job” on something in the shower makes it sound as though there is a single way to do a really good job. But actually, there are many different ways to do a really good job.

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