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| Physical activity turns the brain on. I don’t mean sports. I mean moving. Walking, for instance, sends blood to the brain. We think of thinking as being in the ether, disembodied. But indeed, without blood to the brain, you couldn’t think at all. So too do endorphins from exercise make thinking clearer. At an even more basic level, though, moving engages the brain. Talking, even more, forces your brain to wake up and think of what to say next. When you are talking, your brain is working to anticipate the next move in the conversation. So if you need new ideas, just start talking. | Physical activity turns the brain on. I don’t mean sports. I mean moving. Walking, for instance, sends blood to the brain. We think of thinking as being in the ether, disembodied. But indeed, without blood to the brain, you couldn’t think at all. So too do endorphins from exercise make thinking clearer. At an even more basic level, though, moving engages the brain. Talking, even more, forces your brain to wake up and think of what to say next. When you are talking, your brain is working to anticipate the next move in the conversation. So if you need new ideas, just start talking. | ||
| - | Naturally, this talking is ideally uncensored. You literally say the first thing that comes into your head, and the next, and the next. There’s another scene in //Mad Men// in which the creative, Stan, starts babbling a million tag lines to go with a car ad. Then someone interrupts him and he shouts, “Oooh! You just flushed the toilet in my mind.” In other words, Stan was on a roll, and the interruption killed it. Creativity happens when people feel like they can literally say anything. | + | Naturally, this talking is ideally uncensored. You literally say the first thing that comes into your head, and the next, and the next. There’s another scene in //Mad Men// in which the creative, Stan, starts babbling a million tag lines to go with a car ad. Then someone interrupts him and he shouts, “Oooh! You just flushed the toilet in my head.” In other words, Stan was on a roll, and the interruption killed it. Creativity happens when people feel like they can literally say anything. |
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