A Shower is best served cold

Make it a Cool, or Cold shower.

I do some of my best thinking in the shower.  I also can waste a tremendous amount of water just standing there for the first 5-10 minutes doing nothing but zoning out.  That’s not a problem when the water is cool enough to make you slightly uncomfortable.  A cool shower gives you purpose, direction… you set a goal of cleaning your mildly filthy self with focus and just enough intensity that you’ll never have to deal with the sometimes unavoidable question: “Did I wash my hair or not?” after you’ve turned the water off.

That and a cool shower won’t artificially inflate your body temperature.  Better to be a cold man on a cold day, than a sweaty guy on a warm day.  (Unless you’re stranded somewhere, and then, more often than not… you’d be dead in the cold on cold scenario)

You’ll only make this mistake once:  Get back from the gym, take a hot shower, throw on a suit and head somewhere important in 80% humidity, then end up sweating like those idiots in the ridiculous Taco Bell Volcano Burrito ad.  Sure you might have been sick for the last few days with a fever breaking every now and then… but it all  could have probably been prevented with a cool, slightly uncomfortable, shower.

And hey, it’s way better than wearing a headband.