Amid the mist and suds, a good shower can relax not only your body but also your mind, unleashing streams of consciousness, clarity and creativity.
, 98 professional writers and 87 physicists recorded their most creative idea each day, as well as what they were doing and thinking when it struck them.
But those spontaneous thoughts in the shower had another advantage: They were more likely to be “aha” experiences — modern Archimedes-in-the-bathtubThe shower effect on creativity is the product of mind-wandering, where your thoughts are anywhere but on the task at hand. The students then watched either a boring video of two men hanging laundry or a more engaging clip of thefrom “When Harry Met Sally.” These activities gave time for the students’ ideas to incubate and for their minds to wander.
, assistant professor of philosophy of cognitive science at the University of Virginia and author of the study.Our ability to generate novel ideas and creative thoughts probably arises from our brain’s “default mode network” , a constellation ofAdvertisementreported the first direct evidence that the DMN is causally linked to creative thinking.
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