Physical Act of Creativity. Moving helps. Research.
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Highlights from new research on body movement and creativity
- Divergent thinking goals are: to generate many different kinds of ideas, to generate many ideas and to generate brand new ideas (there are tools for these).
- Greater success occurs in divergent thinking when two hands are used (as in the phrase, on the other hand…)
- Convergent thinking means to analyze the relationship between two or more ideas to create a new solution.
- Walking in a flexible pattern improves how well the convergence is done
further reading: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/full-frontal-psychology/the-physical-act-of-creativity.html
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