Why are not the ideas well organized as walking?

ByIan Muttoo

Apple's late Steve Jobs is like an episode where walking around here and there, such as parks and roads anyway, when it comes to talking about something important or putting together ideas, when the idea is not readily summarized A good idea suddenly comes to mind when walking outside is a common experiences all over the world. there,"Why are not the ideas well organized as walking?"aboutThe New YorkerWe are considering from various angles.

Why Walking Helps Us Think - The New Yorker
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"UlyssesI am the author ofJames JoyceWhen,"Mrs DallowayAuthorVirginia WoolfIs a novelist who expressed "a flow of consciousness" in a novel. Following the footprints of the characters appearing in these two pieces of work, Joyce and Wolf leave their names until later generations as novelists exploit the deep connection between "walking" and "thinking" You can see how it was.

As for what this means, Joyce and Wolf actually walked around the town with their own legs, and then they walked through the town in the same way as the characters of the novel. For example, when Wolf walks around Mrs. Darrowway, he seems to have interwoven London in the past and the image of the head in the head and walks through it, so that the change in the consciousness of the characters under construction It is said that it became possible to express more delicate.

Other writers'Henry David ThoreauIsMy own journalIn my opinion, "When my legs move, my idea begins to flow", and it seems that I feel intuitively that "walking" has a positive influence on "thinking". further,Thomas de QuincyIs "William WordsworthThe poem walks in the mountains, passes through the forest, footsteps are walking on public roads. He should be walking 180,000 miles (about 290,000 kilometers) in his lifetime, "he said, as William Wordsworth was inspired by poetry from various things while walkingPointing outdoing.

ByJeffrey Zeldman

Many of the writers make use of the strange power between "walking" and "thinking", but what kind of relationship is there between these?

As a human being walks, the heart beats faster and more blood circulates throughout the body than when sitting, oxygen in the blood comes to all organs in the body as well as muscles, Lots of oxygen will be supplied to the brain. As a result, it is known that when performing memory and attention tests during exercise and exercise, performance is improved more than when sitting, but this will be effective enough even with very light exercise is.

Also, regular exerciseNew connection between brain cellsIt also leads to preventing the brain tissue from degenerating with age. Furthermore, it seems to increase the amount of hippocampus, stimulate the growth of new neurons, and exchange the signal between neurons, so it is clear how well the influence exercises have on the brain I will.

ByMR McGill

"Movement of the body" itself seems to be a good thing, but exercise may change human thought, and that is not necessarily suitable for each idea. According to a psychologist who is studying the influence of music heard during exercise on human beings, human beings will run faster when listening to high-tempo music, running, moving quickly on a bicycle or a car etc. It seems that you will want to listen to music with fast tempo. Besides, when the driver of the car is listening to the music with the loud tempo with a loud sound, he is unconsciously stepping on the accelerator more than usual, and exercise and movement unconsciously affects the mental part of the human being greatly To giveI know. So, in addition to "walking at your own pace", there is no way to reset the heart and body to a natural state.

When walking, the pace of walking will be faster or slower in accordance with your own mood and tone, but by consciously making walking faster or slower, you can freely change your own pace It is also possible to do.

Furthermore, while walking, there is no need to concentrate on 'walking', so consciousness becomes free and various ideas emerge, but this is one of the mental states in which innovative ideas and sharp insights can be found That it isthe studyIt is clarified by.

By"El Gabo" - Davide Gabino

Besides, Marily Oppezzo and Daniel Schwartz of Stanford Universitythe studySo, we are investigating the relationship between 'walking' and 'thinking' directly.

In this study, 176 college students had a test on creative thinking, one of them said that they asked subjects to propose a "usage that does not fit in the type", like tires and buttons anywhere . The result of this test was that the subject who considered the problem while walking suggested more unusual usage than the person who thought while sitting. However, it has also been found that "walking" may be backfired, and words that can be commonly associated with three words "cottage (cottage, cottage), cream, cake" When I performed the test of searching, the group thinking about answering while sitting seems to have given good results. The answer to this question is "cheese".

Researchers, on the other hand, say, "In the case of a test that requires a free idea, it is better to answer while walking, but in the case of a test that focuses on a specific thing, It may be counterproductive to think about it. "

ByDennis Wilkinson

Besides, Marc Berman of South Carolina Universitythe studyAccording to walking in places like green trees rather than walking on an ordinary road, we know that the performance of the memory test improves. In addition, there is a limit on attention, and even if you do not do anything, attention decreases with time, so it is also known that it is better to walk in a place with green to prevent a decline.

However, it seems to have a good effect on walking in the city, Wolf also said that he gained creative energy from the city of London and rested his mind in the nature of South Downs and went on to write novels .