If gardening sounds like something you should wait to do in your retirement years, think again. Aside from being peaceful, a great stress-reliever and a form of physical activity, gardening is excellent for creativity. Instead of work, think of it as play for grown-ups. It’s a socially acceptable and age-appropriate excuse to play with [...]
When writing and editing are core to your work, it can be hard to find the time to break away and read for pleasure. But find that time. Reading helps you learn new things and opens you up to new ideas, the World Literacy Foundation notes. And that aids in creativity and imagination. Plus, there [...]
In our team’s experience, listening to music is good for lots of things — inspiring movement, lifting your mood and yes, creativity. Science backs us up on this too. Music, researchers say, improves cognition and memory. And in one study, researchers discovered that listening to happy music improved divergent thinking — more ideas and more [...]
We love our phones, tablets and computers. They make life easier, right? Meh, sometimes. Sure, it’s nice to order a salad from your phone, and my 6-year-old is learning how to code on an iPad app. But as anyone who reads their weekly screen time report knows, we spend way too much on our devices [...]
