Walk stirs scientists to measure walking’s impact on creativity
09Mar19
Why Walking Helps Us Think, by Ferris Jabr, starts with noticing the way authors use walks in their writing (and to stimulate their writing), then reports on the first scientific studies which ‘directly measure the way walking changes creativity in the moment.’
They got the idea for the studies while on a walk. “My doctoral advisor had the habit of going for walks with his students to brainstorm,” Oppezzo says of Schwartz. “One day we got kind of meta.”
The article is from 2014, so there must be plenty of new research to look up! I’m always a sucker for meta – and for walking as well (coincidentally also since 2014). Good motivation to handle some health issues, so that I can walk more!
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Speaking of going meta – https://groupworksdeck.org/patterns/Go_Meta