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> Often, by the time I get back, I've found a better solution. Yet, the article says: While the study showed that walking benefited creative brainstorming, it
by aspidistra 12y ago
> Often, by the time I get back, I've found a better solution.
Yet, the article says:
While the study showed that walking benefited creative brainstorming, it did not have a positive effect on the kind of focused thinking required for single, correct answers. [...]
Productive creativity involves a series of steps – from idea generation to execution – and the research, Oppezzo said, demonstrated that the benefits of walking applied to the "divergent" element of creative thinking, but not to the more "convergent" or focused thinking characteristic of insight.
"There's work to be done to find out the causal mechanisms," Schwartz said.
- snewman 12y agoHmm. Perhaps, for the scenario I'm describing, the key is simply to get away from my desk (and thus, away from heat-of-the-moment coding). The actual walking around might be irrelevant or worse. I could believe that... though the walk does have other benefits, unrelated to the immediate task at hand.