Today’s Exchange Every Day
May 23, 2025
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
– Maya AngelouIn an online article on the Edutopia website, “Boosting Resilience Through Creativity,” author Elena Aguilar writes, “Creativity is a resource for coping with stress—and it can be as simple as just asking questions to enhance our sense of wonder…
“Creativity unlocks inner resources for dealing with stress, solving problems, and enjoying life. When we are creative, we are resourceful, and we problem solve in new and original ways…
“It’s good for your brain because it stimulates alpha waves, signals in the brain that closely correlate with states of relaxation. Scientists have found that when people are relaxed, they’re much more likely to have big aha moments, when impossible problems seem to solve themselves. This is why when you’re going around and around a problem,[…]