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Laugh yourself creative

Laugh yourself creative

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Laugh yourself creative

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- In order to help along the process of getting to new ideas, you can laugh it all off, literally. Research supports this. Laughter has been found to increase creativity, productivity, and collaboration. Laughter can help people solve problems that demand creative solutions by making it easier to think more broadly, associate ideas and relationships more freely, and to see the previously unnoticed. Recent research shows that people in a lighter mood experience more eureka moments where ideas, insights, and greater inspiration come to them in a flash. It turns out that the two hemispheres of the brain are activated and better connected when we laugh, laying the foundation for increased learning and better processing of information. Also through laughter, while the associative part of the brain revs up, the part of the brain that controls self-monitoring and behavior modification, also known as the inner critic,…

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