Coming up with new ideas--and being more accepting of new strategies--strengthens the brain and makes you less susceptible to stress.
Nursing homes offering activities like writing seminars, poker nights, and pottery lessons might just be on to something.
In a study of 1,349 older male veterans, creativity--serving as an indication of openness, the willingness to try new things and accept new ideas--seems to have predicted a longer lifespan. The Journal of Aging and Health study, which followed the men over the course of 18 years (but did not include any women), found that creative thinking may have led to a 12% reduction in mortality risk.
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