Ticking off your chore list could be the answer to your mental block.
Ideas are slippery things. Faced with the proverbial blank page we so often come up short, only for inspiration to hit us hours later on the drive home. Almost everyone has experienced some version of this scenario. Ask people where they get their best ideas, and you’re more likely to hear tales of bathrooms and train journeys than boardrooms and work meetings.
Your brain’s functioning can – at the most basic level – be separated into two areas: the default network, and the executive network. The default network is what we engage when we are doing something passive or repetitive; the executive network is what we engage when focussing on something more tricky or mentally demanding.
the University of British Columbia used fMRI scanners to see what is actually going on in the brain when we daydream. The findings surprised them: far from shutting down when engaged in daydreaming, both the defaultthe scientific journal PNAS, found that mind wandering is associated with increased alpha waves in the brain’s frontal cortex . So, what does this all mean? Essentially, that there is a direct, cognitive link between the daydreaming state and idea production.
It’s important to note that the kind of daydreaming which is linked to creativity is totally distinct from rumination. In other words, dwelling on your worries or things that have happened in the past isn’t going to lead to any light bulb moments. What you’re aiming for is joyous, free-moving daydreaming. The kind where one thought leads you to another, like a frog jumping between lily-pads.
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