Walking makes you more creative Daniel Pink says: "The research on walking is unbelievable. There's a famous study where they put people in a chair and they put people on a treadmill, and they do the "alternative uses for an object test." Basically, you give somebody something mundane like... a brick and ask: How many different uses can you have for the brick? You can use it as a door stop. You can use it as a step ladder to reach something you can't reach. You can use it as a paper weight. The people who were walking on a treadmill generated like three times as many ideas as the people sitting in a chair. Wow. It's unbelievable. They were just in a treadmill in a laboratory." Daniel Pinkshow more

@david_perell This is interesting. Movement changes how the brain works. Many of my best ideas have come during simple walks, not while sitting at a desk. We underestimate how powerful small habits like walking can be.

can confirm

In India, it is considered normal in dharma to leave home with your family’s permission and walk alone to seek deeper understanding of the world.

It is one of nature's most brilliant ways to elicit DMN-dominant activity. That's the brain in creative, ideation mode. Ideally, you want the walk to be slow and in a known area. That way, you can cut down on any external uncertainty or novelty and let it all emerge from within.

The Audiobook How to Walk Write and Garden for the Healthy Life You Want is available for free ! I wrote this because I found the combination of these habits helped me in the most consistent way. Doing this since 2014 and is my favorite way to stay healthy

Interesting, I would have thought that the moving forward through space is what triggers neuron inputs, which gives you creativity. Maybe walking is associated with that in the brain. We could test weather treadmill creativity decreases over time Vs regular walking. Maybe the muscle movements also trigger sort of "entropy" in the brain, which causes creativity. @grok tell me if I'm wrong or right in one sentence.

Really supports Steve Jobs' desire to always have his meetings where thinking were required, - taking a walk.

@david_perell The health benefits of walking are incredible Astonishing that every physician doesn't end a consultation with a prescription to walk

One of my favorite things to do is walk and talk through ideas. Nothing fosters creativity like movement and exercise.

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I was really excited until I saw the word treadmill

More reasons to walk, this is simply amazing!

@david_perell This finds resonance in Vedic tradition too. Too much sitting produces tamas (inertia). Walking activates rajas (activity). A mind in motion generates more associations which is what is creativity.

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This is written in Aitareya Brahmana of Rigved (ancient Hindu scripture of Sanatana Dharma). It's more than 3500 years old.

@david_perell If walking was a drug or a supplement we’d all be taking it ✨

I wrote this in 2018!

@DanielPink

ive sensed this , and i find conversations more productive when doing something mechanical with my hands.

3k years, 1B real people, consistent sets and reps through 100s of generations. Eastern woowoo almost sounds like empirical science.

#plagiarism hindu scriptures already have those theories discussed in the story of harishchandra