General Article ‘All it takes is a quick walk’: how a few minutes’ exercise can unleash creativity – even if you hat

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Do you have your best ideas while running to the bus stop, or walking the dog? You’re not alone. Researchers are finding remarkable links between movement and blue-sky thinking.

By Sam Pyrah

Need to get your creative juices flowing? Get moving. A long line of influential thinkers have instinctively moved their bodies to open their minds, from Darwin, who advanced his theory of evolution while accumulating laps of his ‘thinking path’, to Nietzsche, who in 1888 warned: ‘Do not believe any idea ...

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