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Creativity and the Playful Brain

Lecture no. 4 from the course: Optimizing Brain Fitness

Creativity and the Playful Brain

Taught by Professor Richard Restak | 30 min | Categories: The Great Courses Plus Online Science Course

What's the connection between daydreaming and creativity? What are four steps for increasing your creativity? Which puzzles are the best for optimizing your brain function—and how can you more efficiently solve them? Learn the answers to these and other questions in this fascinating lecture on creativity and the brain.

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c********m
March 5, 2019
Very instructive and eye-opening. Thank you for sharing your lifelong's worth of information.

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j********m
November 21, 2018
This is improving my life

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a********m
August 23, 2018
I highly doubt that word games have anything much to do with creativity, though I can see how people who have not known any creatives could think so. In my experience, creatives are totally different animals from normal people; the one identifiable feature, though far from being the thing needed to be creative, is widespread interests due to an incredibly open mind.

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