How to Boost Your Creativity This Weekend

Scenario: "'Dude, we gotta expose our brains to a variety of creative texts over this Thanksgiving weekend. Then, we'll be way creative. Yay!" Ahh-fa-shizzle. Or, you could do what most people do during their weekends:

Play!

Have fun with your friends, family, or your bad-self. Play a game of tag. Throw a Frisbee. Fly a kite. Dance like nobody's watching. When you have fun away from work, you boost your creativity. Says psychologist Hara Estroff Marano:

[Play] refreshes us and recharges us. It restores our optimism. It changes our perspective, stimulating creativity. It renews our ability to accomplish the work of the world. Play appears to allow our brains to exercise their very flexibility, to maintain and even perhaps renew the neural connections that embody our human potential to adapt, to meet any possible set of environmental conditions.

Life is pretty great, ain't it? The moral for your badass:

Play like it ain't nobody's business.

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