These are pieces from across the web that caught my eye this week.
How language is processed by your brain
An overview of how our brain processes language, with an emphasis on how learning a new language can help the brain grow.
Four Things To Do Outside The Office To Boost Your Creativity
Aimed at business professionals, this article explains why these four activities may boost creativity:
(1) taking a bath
(2) observing the details of the world around us
(3) working at a coffee shop (or in other surroundings with moderate background noise)
(4) walking
Syllabus: Using Poetry and Fiction to Encourage Experiments in Nonfiction
Writer Chelsea Hodson explains how books that blend or cross genre lines can help writers be more creative and experimental in their own writing. She discusses five books here.
The System I Used to Write 5 Books and Over 1,000 Blog Posts
Well known writer Jeff Goins explains his three-step system for discovering ideas and developing them in writing:
(1) collect ideas
(2) write and save
(3) edit and publish
Experienced writers probably have their own ways of following these three steps, but Goins’s system may help beginning writers get a handle on the process.
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