How to use it
Keep one art practice next to the work (drawing, music, writing, dance), not as a break from it but as another way to see it.
How sure we are
P Evidence: promising. Good studies, but small or few. Use it and keep checking.
Sources
Nobel laureates were far more likely than other scientists to have arts hobbies (Root-Bernstein et al. 2008, correlational).
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