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The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation

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Dopamine Elevating Stimulus for Divergent Thinking

You need some level of elevated dopamine in order to engage in divergent thinking, but not so high that it starts to inhibit that process. We can't actually count the number of times that we blink unless we're actively paying attention to it. But you can learn to calibrate your mood and assess whether or not you're in low, medium or high mood. You could scale it on one to ten and then decide whether or notyou're going to use some dopamine elevating stimulus from the outside. Again, could be music, could be exercise is an excellent way to elevate dopamine.

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