‘All it takes is a quick walk’: how a few minutes’ exercise can unleash creativity – even if you hat
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Do you have your best ideas while running to the bus stop, or walking the dog? You’re not alone. Researchers are finding remarkable links between movement and blue-sky thinking.
By Sam Pyrah
Need to get your creative juices flowing? Get moving. A long line of influential thinkers have instinctively moved their bodies to open their minds, from Darwin, who advanced his theory of evolution while accumulating laps of his ‘thinking path’, to Nietzsche, who in 1888 warned: ‘Do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement.’ And now scientists are not just confirming the link between exercise and creativity, but unpicking precisely how it works.
Often, when we hear about the benefits of physical activity, researchers are really referring to the benefits of fitness – the product of regular and repeated physical activity. But what’s interesting about creativity is that it appears to be enhanced through the very act of moving the body.
‘Even a single, brief bout ...
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