“5 Ways to Maximize Your Brains Creative Potential” by Srinivas Rao will inspire you to get get more from your brain.
“We all have the ability to maximize our cognitive capabilities. The last several years of brain science have revealed that our brains are incredibly plastic and can be rewired. We can form new habits and change our behavior. We can become more productive, prolific, and happier by leveraging some very simple “brain hacks” that don’t require years of meditating at an Ashram. With these brain hacks, we can experience significant gains in performance.
1. Reduce Information Overload
If you listen to every podcast about entrepreneurship, subscribe to 100 newsletters, and read dozens of articles every day, you’re probably not getting as much out of what you consume as you could. When you’re endlessly consuming information, you don’t give your brain time to actually process what you’ve consumed. Since excessive consumption limits your creativity, reducing information overload will likely increase it. Here are a few ways to reduce information overload…” Read the complete article on Medium.
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Contrary to the “right-brain” myth, creativity doesn’t just involve a single brain region or even a single side of the brain. Instead, the creative process draws on the whole brain. … The brain’s default mode network, or as we like to call it, the “imagination network,” is particularly important for creativity.
What makes highly creative people different from the rest of us? In the 1960s, psychologist and creativity researcher Frank X. Barron set about finding out. Barron conducted a series of experiments on some of his generation’s most renowned thinkers in an attempt to isolate the unique spark of creative genius.
In a historic study, Barron invited a group of high-profile creators—including writers Truman Capote, William Carlos Williams, and Frank O’Connor, along with leading architects, scientists, entrepreneurs, and mathematicians… Read the complete article on QZ.
