{"id":2510,"date":"2012-06-25T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2013-06-26T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:54:06","slug":"coffee-house-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/coffee-house-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee House Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes stories come along that just land in the wheelhouse.\u00a0 This article would be one of them &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2012\/06\/study-of-the-day-why-crowded-coffee-shops-fire-up-your-creativity\/258742\/?goback=%2Egde_3278511_member_126719386\" target=\"_blank\">Study of the Day: Why Crowded Coffee Shops Fire Up Your Creativity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hello.\u00a0 I don\u2019t need a study to tell me this fact.\u00a0 In case you didn\u2019t know:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Compared to a relatively quiet environment (50 decibels), a moderate level of ambient noise (70 dB) enhanced subjects&#8217; performance on the creativity tasks, while a high level of noise (85 dB) hurt it. Modest background noise, the scientists explain, creates enough of a distraction to encourage people to think more imaginatively.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which leads to this assertion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The next time you&#8217;re stumped on a creative challenge, head to a bustling coffee shop, not the library. As the researchers write in their paper, &#8220;Instead of burying oneself in a quiet room trying to figure out a solution, walking out of one&#8217;s comfort zone and getting into a relatively noisy environment may trigger the brain to think abstractly, and thus generate creative ideas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now add a large dose of highly-caffeinated black liquid and you have a <em>perfect<\/em> working environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes stories come along that just land in the wheelhouse.\u00a0 This article would be one of them &#8211; Study of the Day: Why Crowded Coffee Shops Fire Up Your Creativity. Hello.\u00a0 I don\u2019t need a study to tell me this fact.\u00a0 In case you didn\u2019t know: Compared to a relatively quiet environment (50 decibels), a moderate level of ambient noise (70 dB) enhanced subjects&#8217; performance on the creativity tasks, while a high level of noise (85 dB) hurt it. Modest background noise, the scientists explain, creates enough of a distraction to encourage people to think more imaginatively. Which leads to this assertion: The next time you&#8217;re stumped on a creative&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/coffee-house-creativity\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[66,903,1703,1767],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Eu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->