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Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking

Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking, Marily Oppezzo and Daniel L. Schwartz. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. The core idea of this paper is simple: walking boosts creativity during and after the activity. Nietzsche said, "All truly great thoughts are

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Read old books

If you want to think better, read old books. Haruki Murakami explains this best in “Norwegian Wood”: If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. The Cultural Tutor, who went from flipping burgers in McDonald’s to Twitter

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12 Favourite Problems

Richard Feynman was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. He was not only famed for his contributions to quantum physics, but also for his talent in simplifying complex scientific principles. Anyone interested in learning more effectively would likely know about 'The Feynman Method.' His life

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Happy New Year, and hi again!

Happy New Year! Hi there! I'm Haikal. You're receiving this email because you signed up for my newsletter at one point in time. I stopped writing my newsletter since October 2021, and a lot has happened since, but now I'm starting again. I'm still not sure what exactly I'll be

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Plus Minus Next Journaling in Roam Research: An Easy Method for Weekly Review

One of the best habits I picked up recently is doing a weekly review. I'd feel lost and agitated whenever I miss doing it. Instead, doing one primes me for the next week and allows me to learn from my mistakes and successes in the previous week. Everyone knows that

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Imitate, then innovate

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn. —T. S.