How to get creative

Posted on by Akshat Rathi

From the BBC Horizon programme:

  1. Do something mundane (to turn off the frontal lobe and allow new ideas to flow more freely)
  2. Do something unexpected (that does not need to be connected to the task you want to get creative at, to help your brain connect new ideas).
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Published by Akshat Rathi

Akshat Rathi is a science journalist. He has previously worked at The Economist and The Conversation. His writing has appeared in Nature, The Guardian and The Hindu. He has a PhD in chemistry from Oxford University and a BTech in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai.

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