People get new ideas in common settings. For some, the three B's are especially productive: bed, bath and bus. Others have reported the three S's produce creative ideas— swimming pool, sauna and sleep.

Ideas are fleeting things that streak across our minds. If not captured, they might be lost forever. The main thing that distinguishes "creative" people from others, say experts writing in Psychology Today, is that creative people have learned ways to be attentive to and preserve some of the ideas that occur to them. They have "idea capturing" skills.

Scientist Otto Loewi struggled for years with a problem in cell biology. One night, a new approach occurred to him during his sleep and he wrote it down in the dark. He went to his lab immediately in the morning to act on it. He won a Nobel Prize for the work he began that night.

People who want to capture their ideas develop methods of doing it. Artists have sketchpads, writers carry notebooks and inventors make notes on napkins and candy wrappers.

Develop your own idea-capturing techniques and you will discover that you are more creative than you think.