文档介绍：Why great e when you aren ’ t trying 为什么伟大的思想在你不经意间产生 Allowing the mind to wander aids creativity. ? Matt Kaplan 21 May 2012 Article tools ? PRINT ? EMAIL ? RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS SHARE / BOOKMARK History is rich with 'eureka' moments: scientists from Archimedes to Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are said to have had flashes of inspiration while thinking about other things. But the mechanisms behind this psychological phenomenon have remained unclear. A study now suggests that simply taking a break does not bring on inspiration — rather, creativity is fostered by tasks that allow the mind to wander. 历史上有足够多呼喊“有了!”的瞬间:从阿基米德到艾萨克牛顿和艾伯特爱因斯坦这些科学家被认为是当他们思考其他的事情时,总是有灵感的火花。但是这个心理现象背后的机制仍旧不清晰。现在有一项研究表明简单的休息一下并不能带来灵感,相反的,创新力被一项项允许思想漫游的任务培养。 The discovery was made bya team led by Benjamin Baird and Jonathan Schooler, psychologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The researchers presented 145 undergraduate students with two 'unusual uses' tasks that gave them two minutes to list as many uses as possible for everyday objects such as toothpicks, clothes hangers and bricks. 这项发现是被来自圣巴巴拉市加利福尼亚大学的心理学家 Benjamin Baird 和 Jonathan Schooler 带领的小组做出的。研究者们呈现了 145 个在校学生完成关于两个“不同寻常的使用”任务,就是让他们在两分钟之内尽可能多地罗列每一件生活物品像牙签,衣架,砖块的用途。 Archimedes made his breakthrough discovery of displacement while relaxing in the bath. 阿基米德在洗澡时做出了巨大的关于浮力定律的突破 JEREMY MAYES / GETTY IMAGES After the two minutes we