Driving Lessons: Performing With Two Minds

The balance between conscious and subconscious modes.

Many years ago, I would get on a flight to or from a race, pull out my laptop, and begin writing. Nine times out of ten, I’d do a brain dump of things I’d thought about, learned, and/or was curious about. Some of what I’d write were nearly fully-formed ideas worth sharing; many were not. But, no matter how “finished” they were, the process of writing th…