Moment 31 - How To Instantly Improve Your Creativity: Bruce Daisley

Uh Creativity. Something you've talked about at length and um For me, I've I've always believed that I'm least creative in the office. I've always thought I was I'm more creative in the gym and in the shower than I am when I'm when I'm sat in a boardroom with a bunch of people. And I know this is something you've spoken about. So I wanted to get your take on where we're most creative, what kills and causes creativity. Let me tell you um what I've I've discovered that

Neuroscience is really intriguing. The the most compelling thing about neuroscience is when you look into it. Uh neuroscientists used to work on experimenting on animals. You know, I'm not I'm not that keen on that. I was like I was, you know, in in a protest group about animal experimentation when I was younger. Um and they used to look at brain injuries. So that used to be the main way that neuroscience worked. And it's only tw the last twenty years that brain scans have had any degree of sophistication. But what they've discovered in like the time that they've had brain scanners is some of the things that they presumed about the way our brain works aren't necessarily right. So let me give you one example. When they used to put people in these brand new brain scanners. And they would watch what their their brains did. They'd give them a puzzle, they give them a Rubik's Cube, their brains would light up in these sort of different places. And then they'd notice what happened when people stopped playing on the puzzle. And their brains would light up.

In sort of Loads of places as well. And so it was it was baffling what's going on right now they'd say to these people. They'd say, Oh right, sorry, I was A million miles away, I was daydreaming. Uh okay, right, that's interesting. Your brain's lightened up when you're when you're not thinking about something, when you sort of switched off. And so the way that neuroscientists categorise this broadly, they say, these three systems of cognition.

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