Can You Boost Your Creativity?
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Back in the 1940s, historian Rosamund Harding noted the creative process of famous musiciansand writers involves habits of motion.Twain paced and dictated, Dickens walked and thought, Goethe composed on horseback andMozart in the back of a carriage.Harding wrote “that state of mind is most favourable to the birth of ideas.”Recent research suggests that diverting our attention could unlock our creativity.First, forget the whole idea that your right hemisphere is creative and the left is logical.When you “use your imagination” you use lots of different structures across your entirebrain.Research suggests the interaction of three brain networks influences your creative thinking.The Executive Attention Network depends on your working memory and is active when you’rere...
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Back in the 1940s, historian Rosamund Harding noted the creative process of famous musiciansand writers involves habits of motion.Twain paced and dictated, Dickens walked and thought, Goethe composed on horseback andMozart in the back of a carriage.Harding wrote “that state of mind is most favourable to the birth of ideas.”Recent research suggests that diverting our attention could unlock our creativity.First, forget the whole idea that your right hemisphere is creative and the left is logical.When you “use your imagination” you use lots of different structures across your entirebrain.Research suggests the interaction of three brain networks influences your creative thinking.The Executive Attention Network depends on your working memory and is active when you’rere...
