Recent research shows it takes the whole brain, working and communicating together in harmony like a symphony orchestra or a football team, for creativity to happen. As the most advanced part of the brain, they work together to keep us organised and motivated in ways that non-human animals simply aren’t capable of.īut they can’t produce creative ideas and work alone. There’s no doubt that the frontal lobes - the part of your brain that presses up against your forehead - are vital.

So where does the creative spark come from? We now know that it’s the way both frontal lobes work together that sparks arguably our highest brain function: creativity. Think of it as a boot camp for your brain.Īmazingly enough, injuring one frontal lobe - the area closely associated with creativity - can leave someone functioning normally. Today, in the last of our exclusive two-part series, I’ll look in more detail at how you can take control of your own brain health using simple exercises and science-based advice - starting with how you can learn to unlock your creativity. But let a tumour grow between the frontal lobes of the brain, the part essential for any creative work, and we quickly learn that those great gifts were simply on loanĪnd if patients who’ve suffered brain cancer, a stroke or injuries can relearn how to walk, talk and regain their fine motor skills using techniques they practise regularly, why should anyone doubt that healthy people can’t push their brain-power into a higher gear, too?įor while most of your brain cells are formed in the womb, certain parts of your brain - particularly the area concerned with memory and learning - continue to create neurons throughout your life. Nobody says that a person ‘has’ creativity we say that he or she ‘is’ creative.

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