Walks boost creativity
If you’re stuck in the middle of a creative project, taking a walk may send your creative juices flowing again, according to a new study by Stanford University, Time magazine reported recently.
We’ve heard countless anecdotes about artists and scientists finding inspiration for their best ideas during aimless ramblings. From US President Barack Obama to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, walking has become “a full-fledged fad among executives”, because it clears minds and helps them come up with new ideas, says a Bloomberg story. But until now, there is little scientific evidence to really support the idea that exercise boosts creativity.
Marily Oppezzo was a graduate student at Stanford Graduate School of Education. In an interview with The New York Times, she said she often went for walks with her adviser to discuss thesis topics. One day she thought: “Well, what about this? What about walking and whether it really has an effect on creativity?”
A New York Times blog recounts Oppezzo’s study. She recruited a group of undergraduate students and set out to see if she could make them more creative. She put her volunteers in a room equipped with only a desk and a treadmill.
First, she asked them to come up with alternative uses for common objects, such as a button, while sitting at the desk. Then the participants were asked to walk on the treadmill, at an easy, comfortable pace. The treadmill faced a blank wall. While walking, each student repeated the creativity tests, which required about eight minutes.
Movement matters
For almost every student, creativity increased greatly when they walked. Most were able to generate about 60 percent more uses for an object, and the ideas were both “novel and appropriate”, Oppezzo writes in her study, which was recently published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
But most of us don’t have brainstorming sessions on treadmills. So Oppezzo next tested whether the effect lasted after a walk had ended, and the results were positive.
Many people would assume that walking outside in a pleasant environment with fresh air would be even better for creativity. To test this, Oppezzo moved her experiment outdoors. Surprisingly, her results don’t support this assumption. After strolling around Stanford’s beautiful campus for eight minutes, the volunteers produced more creative ideas than when they sat for the same length of time either indoors or outdoors. But they were not more creative than when they walked on an indoor treadmill.
According to Oppezzo, in terms of inducing creativity, it is the walking that matters, not the setting.
Oppezzo admits she can’t exactly explain how a casual stroll affects mental processes related to creativity. But “this is an acute effect,” she told The New York Times: “It may be that walking improves mood” as its primary effect, she said, and creativity blooms more easily when the mind is in good spirit.
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