New Huberman Lab podcast out now: SCIENCE OF CREATIVITY & HOW TO ENHANCE YOUR CREATIVE ABILITY• - In the new episode of the Huberman Lab Podcast out now, I explain how the brain engages in creative thinking and, based on that mechanistic understanding, the tools to improve one’s ability to think creatively and innovate in any area. - I discuss how convergent and divergent thinking are essential for generating creative ideas and provide three types of meditation tools (open monitoring meditation, focused attention meditation & a very specific form of non-sleep deep rest; NSDR), which improve our ability to engage in creative thinking patterns and creative implementation. - I also discuss how dopamine and mood contribute to the creative process and describe behavioral, nutritional and supplementation-based approaches for increasing dopamine to engage in creative thought and implementation. I explain how movement and storytelling (narrative) approaches can generate novel creative ideas and how substances like alcohol, cannabis, and psilocybin impact our creative ability. - Creativity is a skill that can be cultivated and enhanced; this episode outlines many tools to help anyone access creativity and apply creative patterns of thought to different domains of life. - You can find the episode in all formats (with references and links to resources) by going to hubermanlab.com Everything is timestamped so you can navigate quickly to the topics most of interest to you. - Please put your questions in the comments section below this post and as always, thank you for your interest in science! - Photo: @blabacphoto - @hubermanlab @stanford.med @stanford @nihgov @nimhgov @nih_nccih @societyforneuroscience @cellpress - #neuroscience #science #ciencia #neurociencia #neuroplasticity #dopamine #creative #creativity #converge #diverge #mesocortical #mesolimbic #nigrostriatal #story #narrative #innovation #imagine