How to be distracted with the benefit for productivity

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We all strive to make the most of time. But psychologists and neuroscientists advise the opposite. Sometimes you need to waste time. This will increase your creativity.

To such conclusionsInspired by Distraction. came a psychologist from the University of California, Jonathan Sculer (Jonathan Schooler). According to him, simple external tasks, during which the brain is distracted, stimulate a creative approach.

Skuler and colleagues conducted such an experiment. First, the participants came up with how to use the original items originally, and then passed the basic test. After that they were divided into four groups. One group immediately returned to the tasks for the unusual use of objects. The second was given a difficult task for memory, the third one was an easy task, during which you can distract yourself, and the fourth was allowed to rest. The best results were in the participant of the third group.

"Most of all, we were surprised that the easy task was more useful than doing nothing," says Skuler. "I think the whole point is that during her brain does not focus on one thing."