At last the general conversation in science and psychology is verifying what we might have sensed: That creative activity is essential to our health and flourishing.
For over 15 years, one wonder-tracking scientist - Daisy Fancourt, a professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College London - has been tracking creativity’s effects on our health - specifically engaging the arts.
But what most interests me is not only that creative activity helps regulate stress or support cognitive health over time - although the research is compelling.
I am more curious how creativity also appears to change how we move through our days.
This Shot of Wonder might especially resonate if:
your workdays have started to feel efficient but flat
you’ve been solving problems without feeling much aliveness in the process
you keep postponing creative acts because they don’t seem “productive” enough
you miss the feeling of making, shaping, sketching, writing, designing, building, or imagining
you sense that restoring creativity might help you think more clearly and move through life differently
In this Shot of Wonder, I address this seminal research and also suggest something else that might be missed. I also provide relevant resources such as book and studies, too.
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