learning

5 May 2008

New habits & creativity

Here'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

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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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