For so many years, I still cannot get rid of my old habit in the first phase of my life in scientific world: whenever I have new ideas (even when sleeping), I would wake up anytime at night (eg sleeping 2:30am just now, waking up 5:30am), writing down all the new ideas in dreams, then formulating the theories into applications. Later research shows that this is actually how the right brain (creativity, breaking through ideas) could help the left brain (logic, systematic).  This characteristic has helped me to achieve the peak of my scientific career, an engineering PhD with over 150 technical publications / patents in the past (just Google my full name) http://smarts.com.sg/Publications.htm In the second phase of my life in financial world, extending the past 18 years of hobby in investment & trading, being a full time investment educator (while taking care of my ......