How to determine the appropriate time to solve creative problems

We admire creative people, who find innovative approach to each task, and adore those rare moments, when we ourselves can say the same. But despite the fact that creativity seems to us something of the sublime and the paranormal, science launched their own hands and here. And very successfully. The following will talk about how to understand what the most productive for your creative work.

People working head and know that sometimes it is worse than physical work. I'm not comparing the importance of physical and mental work, but sometimes when you have to think of something and you does not workIt is so unbearable that I want to hit himself on the head. Painfully. So that this stupid and useless body piece still useful.

The importance of creative thinking can not be overemphasized. People think it is not so, like everyone else, were valued and appreciated in all areas, ranging from the creation and finishing business. Oddly enough, creativity is like any other skill, can be developed, practicing

The study, overturned our understanding of creativity

In 2012, scientists Marijk Ves and Rose Zacks conducted the study, from which results can be found here. They divided the participants into two groups: those who consider themselves the most productive in the morning (larks), And those who like to work at night and wake up late (owls).

Both groups were given two tasks to perform: creative and analytical. Dividing the study into two parts, the researchers wanted to know when participants are most effective in dealing with creative and analytical tasks. Discard the analytical part of the test and focus on the creative, the more so because its results are more than interesting.

The band members larks, consider it their most productive time of the morning, it is best to cope with a creative job in the evening. The band members owls, on the contrary, were the most creative in the morning.

Why?

Scientists came to the conclusion that the creative part of our thinking works best when we are relaxed and inclined to sleep. In this state, the brain is easier to create links between disjointed at first glance, the events. At the same time, this condition has a negative impact on the analytical part of the mind, making us less effective in dealing with the complex, but non-creative tasks.

I am very impressed with this theory. I even keep a notebook by the bed or turn on the app with notes, because before going to bed or middle of the night come to mind an interesting and unusual ideas, remember that in the morning almost impossible.

Try to do the same. If you have an unresolved problem to which need a special approach, leave it at the time, which is considered the least productive. Do you think that the most effective work in the morning? Transfer the solution to this problem in the evening. Or vice versa.

And tell me what you got.