Let’s Walk to Obtain Higher Creativity

Do you knew the below facts, I was not, now I learn!

Stanford University released a study that found humans are about 60% more creative when they’re walking — whether it’s indoors, outside or on a treadmill.

• Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, empiricist, and student to Plato, conducted his lectures while walking the grounds of his school in Athens.
• William Wordsworth walked nearly 175 thousand miles throughout his life while maintaining a prolific writing career.
• Charles Dickens, author, social commentator. After writing from 9 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon, he would go for a long walk. A 20- or 30-miler was routine for him.
• Famous composer Ludwig Van Beethoven typically worked from sun-up through mid-afternoon, taking several breaks to “out into the open” and work while walking. He, after having lunch, used to walk miles in the woods of Vienna carrying a couple of sheets of paper and a pencil in his pocket to record chance musical thoughts.
• Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and now heading up digital finance company Square, takes all new hires at Square for his ‘Gandhi walk’ on their first Friday.
• Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, in specific, is remarkably fond of a walking meeting.
• Charles Darwin had a gravel path installed at his home, not unlike a race track, that he would walk around each day as he thought about problems. The number of rounds he did depended on the difficulty of the problem at hand.
• Friedrich Nietzsche is recognized as one of the Western culture’s most significant philosophers. Nietzsche once wrote that “all truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
• Einstein often felt like he required to take a long walk on the beach to introspect and work out complex problems in his head.
• Steve Jobs, despite his amazing stature, was one of the exceptional-spotted celebrities in Palo Alto, where he was constantly walking while engrossed in a profound conversation. Jobs found that his meetings away from the office helped him concentrate on the meeting and nothing else. 

"Walking opens up the free flow of ideas, and it is a simple and robust solution to the goal of increasing creativity," write authors Marily Oppezzo and Daniel Schwartz in their paper, published in this month's Journal of Experimental Psychology.

CBS News reported in 2017 that a recent study discovered twenty minutes of walking increased cerebral blood flow. And, like with any major organ, increasing circulation is super important to the health of both your brain and body.

As the website Brain MD Health explained, blood flow helps to bring "nutrients to your cells, and takes away toxins."

Walk walk and walk , let us walk whenever feasible, on the campus,wherever possible and let the fresh thoughts keep running. We require those creative thoughts to bring into our world so that we can create impact.

Let us put this self discipline in our daily life as this will improve our creativity which is an essential skill in our profile of-course with free good health!

What works with me,

• After dinner, me and my spouse walk for 30 mins at my apartment
• I go for a walk with my dog, someone has to take him out!
• I drop my kids at tuition and I wander nearby park for the kids tuition period.
• I use office bus, so it takes 15 mins to reach by the home to the bus stand
• Saturday and Sunday I go to an adjacent jogging track for a walk to meet my few friends
• I never use lift, walk by stairs to reach 14th floor daily!

Thoughts come clearly while one walks - Thomas Mann

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Chandan Patary is the author of The Agilist Guidebook, this book enables any change agent to help organizational agile transformation smoothly. This book has 5 chapters, 88 stories, 55 mindmaps, 6 case studies, 30 pictures, 160 quotes, 288 pages and 100 Rs, a 4 years journey into this book. He has composed seven different free e-books available for download at Slideshare. He has written 445+ blogs in LinkedIn. He has presented 13+ seminars as a speaker in numerous conferences. He has uploaded 30+ presentation at Slide share on diverse topics. He has written 20+ technical papers in various national and foreign journals. He has earned many rewards in all the enterprises he has served for. He has received PM World Journal, 2017 Editor’s Choice Awards for the paper “Increasing Business Agility through Organizational Restructuring and Transformation”.