4 simple ways to increase creativity

Working late at night, widening your eyes and raising your eyebrows are ways to help us increase intelligence, stimulate creativity to find solutions to many problems.

Work in the night

Many people believe that a bright morning will give them a good spirit, a clear mind after a long sleep. That helps them get the most clarity in learning and working.

However, the new study shows that working late at night or in difficult circumstances will help you get the best concentration and creativity, even if it causes some harm. The reason is, this time, the whole world seems to have only you and work, you will completely focus and think better, be more creative.

Scientists at Liege University, Belgium recruited several dozen volunteers and asked a group to sleep early and wake up early to work; The other group stayed up late.

After that, the volunteers carried out some tasks that required high concentration. While volunteers work, the team uses high-speed magnetic resonance imaging, which monitors the activity of brain regions involved in concentration.

The results showed that, initially, the concentration of all volunteers was the same after waking up. But after 10 hours, the activity in the brain regions that control the focus of the early riser group is markedly reduced, while the concentration of the late-night group remains unchanged. When doing the work in the evening, the early riser group is more likely to fall asleep and perform slower movements than the group that stays up late. Therefore, scientists who do research confirm that people who stay up late are more creative, remember better and manipulate faster.

Working late at night helps stimulate human creativity.(Artwork: thesite.org)

Doodle on paper

A recent experiment showed that doodling on paper can stimulate our creativity, not simply the waste of time and ink.

Many experiments are done to demonstrate the power of doodle, from whether it is a recreational or relaxing activity, until it supports creativity.

Scientists at Stanford University performed experiments on two groups of people. Both groups were asked to give ideas to develop the topic. The result is only about three ideas are given in each person.

After that, the team gave each person a piece of paper and asked them to draw whatever they wanted. Some people doodle in successive circles, the other group draws a broken pattern.

Finally, the participants were asked to give ideas to another topic. As a result, everyone pointed to twice as many ideas as the original.

Scientists believe that the brain will slowly start to produce, create new ideas. Especially in seamless strokes that are not broken, the brain will work more "smoothly" .

Open your eyes and raise your eyebrows

The act of raising your eyebrows, or opening your eyes often shows surprise at something. However, a study by the University of Chicago and Maryland in the US recently showed that widening the eyes, raising the eyebrows will stimulate Adrenaline - a hormone produced by the adrenal glands that increases blood flow. transmission to the nervous system, helping you think clearly.

Not only that, the researchers also said that, when opening your eyes, raising your eyebrows will stimulate the imagination of people more.

An experiment performed on two groups of people, one group was asked to open their eyes and raise their eyebrows; The other group does not. They imagined the image of a dog in a bagel's mouth. After that, the participant will describe the image I just imagined.

As a result, the group widens their eyes and raises their eyebrows to imagine the beautiful dog image with smooth, smooth fur. And the other group only imagined the bad dog, eating the owner's food.

Therefore, scientists believe that, when the eyes widen, raised eyebrows, human imagination will become richer, stimulating more creativity.

Hand movement

Science proves that, when you try to learn or remember something, using gestures in both hands helps you learn faster and remember better.

The reason is because the memo always works with the brain's limbs that control the limbs. When thinking, many people have the habit of rubbing their hands together, walking around certain positions, or when they want to present something, they often turn their hands around circular orbits as a way to help the brain imagine better. .

According to research, hand movement acts to stimulate thinking in the brain, building cues that help the brain imagine better. Many people use both hands to "sketch" or "visualize" what they are thinking, which helps them quickly find a solution to the problem.

Roschester University scientists have invited elementary school children to participate in the experiment. They divided them into two groups, the first group read quietly, the second group would read and use the sign, hand gestures to imagine the topic again. As a result, children in the second group will produce results faster, they will also remember 92% of problems and solutions. Meanwhile, the first group only remembered about 33% of the papers.