Saturday 7 May 2016
Creative types – especially writers – love a good wander. Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf were avid city strollers whilst Wallace Stevens wrote his poetry walking to work: I write best when I can concentrate and I do that best whilst walking Modern-day novelists like Naomi Alderman go walkabout too – she writes in 200 word bursts sandwiched between regular 15-minute strolls. Marily Oppezzo and Daniel Schwartz of Stanford University published the first set of studies that measure the way walking impacts creativity. Oppezzo, a PhD student at the time, explains where the idea for the research came from: “My…
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