Movement and Creativity

Creativity is your mind traveling to distant lands. And since mind and body are but one thing, moving around generates inspiration. 

Movement and creativity are closely linked. Many thinkers are known to be avid walkers, like Nietzsche and Thoreau. Sometimes, you just have to get up or squeeze a toy.

Placebo or not, I do feel more creative when I take some time to stroll around, stare through a morning car’s window, or watch waves crashing on a beach or trees jiggling in the wind from my chair. I just need to take out my notebook, and the words come to me.

It only works with slow movements—movements that don’t require my eyes to constantly jump from place to another. The scenery has to sink in to reveal its secrets.

Inversely, nothing good comes out of an agitated or overthinking mind. If we’re too fixated on something and our mind can’t wander, the creative result is mediocre. We have to learn to let go.