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Ever thought of it, why we have creative and much innovative ideas while taking a shower, or on the toilet (you know it!!), or while taking a walk, or while listening to music, or while driving. May be during these activities something stimulates our thoughts. Our creative thinking process is accelerated. But, how is it possible? What is it that controls our thought process? How our actions and surroundings affect it? According to researchers, there is definitely relation between our creative thinking ability and the actions we do. Wonder why someday while bathing a flash of brilliant thought strikes you. May be it is an answer to a long troublesome problem, or something you were trying to recall badly, or a memory that gives fresh insight to a personal dilemma. But by the time we finish bathing and grab a notebook to not it down, the thought is already 90% lost. This happens with driving and in toilet and while listening to music too. It seems that aimless engagement in an acti...

Benefits of learning a second language include brain growth, staving off dementia, boosting memory, improving attention and more… “ To have another language is to possess a second soul.”   –Charlemagne People used to think that learning two languages created confusion in the mind. Far better, it was thought, to get one right than bother with two. An even more extreme and absurd view was that learning two languages caused a kind of schizophrenia or dual personality. Some studies did seem to back up the idea that learning two languages could be problematic; early researchers noted that bilingual people tended to have smaller vocabularies and slower access to words. But these myths and minor disadvantages have now been overshadowed by a wave of new research showing the incredible psychological benefits of learning a second language. And these extend way beyond being able to order a cup of coffee abroad or ask directions to your hotel. 1.Brain growth The ...