Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 83
The most recent episode of ‘Exploring your Creative Genius’ offers a series of simple tips and behavior hacks that will help you get into your most creative mindset.
Here’s one more. Researchers out of the University of Munich set out to determine if color has any impact on Creative performance. They devised both verbal and non-verbal creativity tests.
They had research participants, men and women, stare for 20 seconds at red, blue, gray, or green before taking the tests; each group stared at a different color.
Only the participants who stared at green had any improvement and it was impressive, a 25% gain in performance vs. the base line.
Why green? Look out your window anywhere in the world and you’ll be reminded that the color of growth is green. The most fundamental life creating force on the planet, photosynthesis, creates green.
And not surprisingly, our eyes can detect more shades of green than any other color.
When I learned of this research, I went to the local business supply store and bought a box of green file folds, kept some, and passed the others to friends and workshop guests. I stare at my green folder two or three times a day.
I also painted my office green before I learned of their follow up research that found ambient green doesn’t have the same impact; one needs to stare at it intentionally, meditate, absorb it.
The green block that covers this column is there for you to boost your creativity.
And if you have any tips to share, or ideas about guests for the show, please email me at carl@creativepopulist.com
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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