CAR day

My best thinking time during the day is in my car, on the way to work. It doesn’t work so well on the way home as that is more a slow release of tension from the day!

Anyway, I often have good ideas, or come to reasonable-sounding conclusions in my car. But these are quickly forgotten by the time I arrive in the office. I have tried recording my car sessions, but I hate listening to myself (I pity my colleagues on whom I regularly inflict this), and I rarely have time to return to those recordings and pick out the good bits.

So I may now reward myself with a CAR day – wherein I will resume the car thinking after arriving at work, and not let other office pressures derail me.

To that end it needs a good acronym expansion. I have come up with “Constructive Analytical Reverie“, which I feel nicely covers both the unstructured approach and the valuable output.

I was supposed to have my first CAR day today, but it hasn’t happened – due to other office pressures. At least I made notes this morning upon arrival at work. Maybe tomorrow…