How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers and Writers Have Always Known

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 Friedrich Nietzsche, an almost fanatical walker, once wrote, “all truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”

 "A certain Zen proverb goes something like this: “A five year old can understand it, but an 80 year old cannot do it.” The subject of this riddle-like saying has been described as “mindfulness”—or being absorbed in the moment, free from routine mental habits. In many Eastern meditative traditions, one can achieve such a state by walking just as well as by sitting still—and many a poet and teacher has preferred the ambulatory method."  READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW HERE:
 
http://www.openculture.com/2015/07/how-walking-fosters-creativity.html