Turns out a few Z’s can boost your creativity. A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports suggests there’s a link between naps and a creative mind — but timing is key. Researchers from ...

Think back to a time when you needed a quick answer, maybe for a recipe or a DIY project. A few years ago, most people’s first instinct was to “Google it.” Today, however, many people are more likely ...

A new sleep study suggests that quick naps may actually spark the creative process – a topic that has been speculated for decades. Researchers at MIT and Harvard University recruited 50 people to ...

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Sometimes doing something completely different from creating helps spark a creative project or motivates us to create. Simple tasks like doing the dishes or folding the laundry can quiet us in such a ...

Timelines, emails, back-to-back events—busy season for event professionals is no joke. And when it hits, your creativity can quickly take a backseat. This time of year has a way of turning even the ...

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Creativity is often thought of as an innate ability or trait. (Steve Jobs was clearly creative, I'm definitely not.) Yet creativity, like confidence, can also be situational. For example, research ...

A recent clinical study provides new evidence that the effects of psychedelic substances on creativity are more nuanced than commonly assumed. The research, published in the Journal of ...

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