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New habits & creativity
Posted May 5th, 2008 by ArpHere's an interesting article I read in the NY Times today. The general idea is that changing habits promotes creativity, which makes sense since that entails thinking just a little differently. All the little things add up :-) The line that most caught my attention though is
At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.
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