Hi I'm Daniel Tosh, host of a new podcast called Tosh Show.

I'll be interviewing people that I find interesting, so not celebrities, and certainly not

comedians. We'll be covering topics like religion, travel, sports, gambling, but mostly it will be about being a working

mother.

If you're looking for a podcast that will educate and inspire or one that will really make

you think, this isn't the one for you.

Listen to Toss Show on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's

tip is about how to get new ideas. Everyone likes to talk about innovation as this big fancy concept, but if you think about it,

innovation just means coming up with new ideas, preferably lots of new ideas, because creativity turns out to be a numbers game.

Some stuff will work and some stuff won't.

So we've got to throw a lot of stuff at the wall to see what sticks.

But very few people build much thinking time into their lives.

Instead, most of us spend our days responding to emails, trumping to status meetings,

and leaving precious little time open.

Then we wonder why our brains feel so fried.

Unfortunately, the cycle of reactivity is incredibly counterproductive.

By responding to everything immediately,

we don't carve out the space to come up with the ideas that make people want to email us in the first place.

Some people might be able to go off into a cabin in the woods for months at a time, but I think most of us need to come up with

more realistic ways to build strategic thinking into our lives.

Fortunately, there are simple steps we can take to get our brains into turning mode quickly.

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