henry copeland:
Maybe Renaissance men were geniuses because they diversified? pllqt.it/h4fQwp by @emmaseppala
A Stanford psychologist explains why spacing out and goofing off is so good for you - The Washington Post
You can also unfocus by broadening your experiential and intellectual horizons. According to Kaufman, anything that violates expectations of how the world works can boost creativity. For example, a semester spent studying abroad boosts students’ creativity. Why? New experiences that disrupt our usual way of life and show us a different perspective make us more mentally flexible or creative. […]A research study out of Harvard headed by Karim Lakhani established that there was a higher probability of someone solving a problem submitted to Innocentive if that person was not an expert in that particular field, but was in a field that was marginally or not at all related.- www.washingtonpost.com