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First Draft - Annie Murphy Paul

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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The Relationship Between Walking and Thinking

When i walk, ideas that were that I was wrestling with back at my desk, or ideas that weren't, sort of coming together, they just, they just em. Often what i'm looking for appears when  I start walking or moving my body. It's so very different from working with words and sitting maybe your computer. And the reason that a creativity is often stimulated by bodily movement may be because our brain didn't evolve to read. This is o recent cultural invention that all our brains have to be required as children to learn how to read,. The way we are able to grasp abstract concepts um is by using metaphors that sort of map those abstract ideas on to our physical,

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