A few posts back I talked about how a simple change of scenery got my brain juices flowing and helped me get unstuck. Here's a post on the Innovation Weblog that echoes that idea.
It talks about the book Aha! 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas, by Jordan Ayan. One of the chapters focuses on the creative benefits of travel.
Venturing beyond your geographic comfort zone invigorates your creative spirit. When you go somewhere you've never been before, your brain becomes alive, and you become more acutely aware of your surroundings...Travel serves up a continually changing kaleidoscope of colors, textures, smells and tastes that heighten all of your senses and compel you to think and react in new ways… Travel jolts you out of your normal habits and gives you a renewed sense of excitement about the world that can refresh your creative wellspring.Perhaps more than any other tool, travel feeds your creative core and strengthens your intelligences. Each time you observe an unusual custom, hear a foreign language, listen to strange music, or walk an unfamiliar path, you inject your mind with data that build your intelligences.
Somewhere in the murky past of this blog I quoted an article that maintained that part of the reason we feel more creative when we travel is that figuring all those new things out keeps the left brain engaged so the right brain is free to wander where it will. Interesting thought.
Curt Rosengren
Passion Catalyst SM
cool blog, thanks a lot
Posted by: korkut | July 08, 2004 at 02:39 PM