From the BBC Horizon programme:
- Do something mundane (to turn off the frontal lobe and allow new ideas to flow more freely)
- 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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Akshat Rathi is a senior reporter for Bloomberg News. He has previously worked at Quartz, 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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