But the value of daydreaming does not stop here.
It has been found
that it improves a person's ability
to be better adapted to practical, immediate concerns,
to solve everyday problems,
and to come up more readily with new ideas.
Contrary to popular belief,
constant and conscious effort at solving a problem is,
in reality,
one of the most inefficient ways of coping with it.
While conscious initial effort is always necessary,
effective solutions
to especially severe problems frequently occur
when conscious attempts to solve them have been put off.
Inability to relax,
to let go of a problem,
often prevents its solution.
Historically,
scientists and inventors are one group
that seems to take full advantage of relaxed moments.
Their biographies reveal
that their best ideas seem
to have occurred when they were relaxing and daydreaming.