http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3228009/Brainwave-most-likely-to-strike-at-10.04pm.html
People are at their most creative late at night with 10.04pm the most likely time for a eureka moment, research has shown.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7791000/7791966.stm"There are advantages to sitting around and doing nothing," says Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler magazine, which has been promoting the cause of idleness since it first went to press in 1993.
"All the great creative breakthroughs come when people are sitting around, or lying in bed in the morning half awake.
"Idleness is a wellspring of creativity, is enjoyable for its own sake and there are health benefits as well."
Five studies employing a multimethod approach systematically explored the link between living abroad and creativity. (...) The relationship between living abroad and creativity was consistent across a number of creativity measures (including those measuring insight, association, and generation), as well as with masters of business administration and undergraduate samples, both in the United States and Europe, demonstrating the robustness of this phenomenon.http://psycnet.apa.org/?fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/a0014861
Paint the walls blue to boost your creativity. That's the message from an intriguing new study that shows the contrasting effects of blue and red on mental performance.http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/02/colours-affect-mental-performance-with.html
In contrast to morning types, evening people preferred the symbolic over the concrete, were creative and risk-taking, and tended to be non-conformist and independent.http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2007/08/personality-of-early-risers.html
