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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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This is a general trend, but like in the case you noted, doesn't always hold.
Another example: if one woman can have one baby in nine months, how long does it take nine women to have one baby?
A lot comes down to technique:
When "protecting a secret" do the people doing the protecting actually know the secret? Do they even know they're doing secret protection? Secret protection works best when the secret is known by nobody.
These 9 women, are they just getting pregnant, or are they plotting a kidnapping?
My project manager says nine women would have a baby in 2 weeks
That type of thinking is required to be a project manager, I think.
"Well, officer, I provided the contractor with one 5 gallon bucket of paint yesterday, and he got two rooms done. But today, when I unloaded ten 5 gallon buckets of paint onto his Honda Civic, he got upset instead of painting twenty rooms like I expected!"