Inner Workings of the Mind

It seems that it is always when we are occupied that we realize something else. I feel like it is when I am busy working away at a task that I either realize all the other things I need to be doing or have an epiphany of some sort. I think every time I sit down to write a paper or study for a test I have a great thought, which inevitably overrides my studies for a few minutes at the least. My best thoughts come to me when I'm busy doing something equally important (at least at the time), not when I'm lounging around looking for something to do. It is as if our minds work better when they are full. I think what it is is we need one thought to trigger our minds and from there our thoughts branch out in a million different directions. The mind map is a good example of this phenomenon. It starts with one single idea or word and from there our mind instantly draws connections to other ideas and so on and so forth until we end up with hundreds of random words and phrases that seem so disconnected at first glance, but are actually related in that they have the same original thought. Hmm that makes me think...