The Boston Globe recently published an article, How the City Hurts Your Brain… and what you can do about it, which describes the depleting effect a city has on your brain.
While people have searched high and low for ways to improve cognitive performance, from doping themselves with Red Bull to redesigning the layout of offices, it appears that few of these treatments are as effective as simply taking a walk in a natural place.
This definitely rings true to me. My personal escape is gardening and cooking. There’s something about interacting with nature, watching your fruits and vegetables grow and then eating them, that just excites me.
My garden isn’t too big, but it does take up over half of my (very) small backyard. It’s small enough to enjoy but not worry about. I’ll probably have to start over when I get back from London next week – snow, cold weather, and no one watching it for a month will have hurt most of the garden. But now I’ll have something to work on for my last semester of college.
How do you relax and recharge?
(found article via Ben Casnocha)
Bill Erickson is a WordPress Consultant who builds custom websites using WordPress as a CMS and Thesis or Genesis as a framework. He’s a cofounder and resident of The Creative Space, and a cofounder of the BIL Conference (the open analog to the TED Conference).
