Do you waste time down rabbit holes?
Do you waste time down rabbit holes?
Here is how rabbit holes can help productivity rather than hinder it.
I thought it might be interesting to do something different this week and show you how my brain works. The rabbit holes I go down and how I follow them. You can tell me at the end how many of you follow this route.
After reading this, you’ll probably unsubscribe and think I’m a complete maniac. However, I have a sneaky suspicion that more of you will agree with what I’ve said than others.
My first thought was, are there twins born on different days? I am writing a novel about twins, and I thought this might be a fun quirk. The answer is that many twins are born on different days as their birth crosses the midnight mark. The exact percentage is unknown, but statistics suggest it could be as high as 5% of twins have different birthdays.
Then I wondered if there were twins born in different years. The Humphrey’s from New Jersey welcomed twins this year, born not only on different days but in different months and years.
This rabbit hole was fun, but others have provided the basis for many articles. One that comes to mind now is the story of the Ratlines that operated after World War II. I enjoy looking at the stories in history that are largely forgotten; this is a secret that has been kept for many years. Understandably, the Ratlines helped many Nazis escape prosecution.
The research took me in many different directions, but it started as a flippant comment in another book I read.
My biggest rabbit hole, however, has been going on for years: the many stories associated with Jack the Ripper.
Disappearing down a rabbit hole on the internet has always been seen as a negative activity that reduces productivity, but some rabbit holes end up providing the material for many articles.
So please tell me what rabbit holes you have been down lately.
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Until next week stay safe
Sam 😊
Quote of the week
Research is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. - Albert Szent-Györgyi
