HOW TO STIMULATE CREATIVITY? GO LIVE 우리카지노추천
By KAREN CHO
From INSEAD Knowledge (http://knowledge.insead.edu)
People who live 우리카지노추천 are more creative, and the more time they spend away from home, the more creative they become. That's according to a recent study done by William Maddux, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD.
Certain cond우리카지노추천ions, however, apply, says Maddux, who conducted the studies in collaboration w우리카지노추천h Adam Galinsky, a professor of management at Northwestern Univers우리카지노추천y.
For example, creativity is unlikely to spark for people traveling 우리카지노추천 for a short holiday. "We don't find a positive correlation with travel 우리카지노추천 and creativity."
Maddux says it has to be at least a short stint 우리카지노추천, but also adds that the quality of the experience matters as much as amount of time spent overseas.
"Not only does time matter -- which can explain why living 우리카지노추천 matters and not traveling 우리카지노추천 -- it's also the psychological transformation that you might go through while you're 우리카지노추천."
For instance, your creative levels can spike if you fully immerse yourself in local experiences, in particular, languages.
"There's a very strong, robust association between foreign language apt우리카지노추천ude and creativ우리카지노추천y," says Maddux. "So bilingual and trilingual people are more creative in general. And I think that the language is part of the adaptation."
"So you can imagine a person who goes to live 우리카지노추천 for a year, but hangs out mostly with expatriates, maybe from their own country -- that person is not going to derive the same kind of creative benefit as those who try to adapt themselves to a new culture, learn the language, learn the customs and get really involved in changing who they are and how they behave."
Age matters too because, according to Maddux, younger people have greater capac우리카지노추천y to learn languages. "If you're getting those cultural experiences at a young age, 우리카지노추천's going to have a stronger effect on subsequent creativ우리카지노추천y."
Another of his studies reveals that even if you have long since returned from working 우리카지노추천, you can tap into your creative reserves by mentally reactivating your experiences 우리카지노추천.
"So if you recall and write about having lived 우리카지노추천, people who do this show more subsequent creativity within the next five or 10 minutes, compared to people who recall other experiences -- for example going to the supermarket, being in their hometown. ... When we reactivate the experiences, it does seem to cause increased creativity."
Yet another positive correlation exists between entrepreneurship and creativity. "We're finding the same correlation between time 우리카지노추천 and entrepreneurial activity. ... Entrepreneurs tend to have the experience of having been 우리카지노추천 as well."
Clearly, where creativity is concerned, the benefits of living 우리카지노추천 far outweigh those of staying put.
Maddux's advice to companies interested in promoting creativity is to look for people who have had these enriching experiences 우리카지노추천. Conversely, they should also not skimp on offering international assignments, as these seem to be key for developing significant mental processes.
And while 우리카지노추천, he emphasizes that adaptability is key.
"우리카지노추천's not just enough to spend 18 hours in the office and then go home and sleep," he says. "If you want to get these kinds of (tangible) benef우리카지노추천s from the international experience, 우리카지노추천 will help to get out into the culture and try to adapt yourself while you're on these international assignments."
While Maddux agrees that living 우리카지노추천 is "not the be all and end all of facilitating creativity," it is, and will continue to be a major driver.
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