They should know better.
Big ideas don't come from sitting.
As Nietzsche said, “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
Writers have always understood walks are not trips around the block, but treks through idea-land.
Aristotle, Kant, Rousseau, Blake, Dickens, Woolf, Hemingway—all were avid walkers.
"The moment my legs begin to move,” Thoreau said, “my thoughts begin to flow.”
Why does walking work?
Because we don’t have to think hard when we do it.
Our minds are free to wander—and unleash a parade of images.
"Writing and walking are extremely similar feats," Ferris Jabr says in The New Yorker.
"When we choose a path through a city or forest, our brain must survey the surrounding environment, construct a mental map of the world, settle on a way forward, and translate that plan into a series of footsteps.
"Likewise, writing forces the brain to review its own landscape, plot a course through that mental terrain, and transcribe the resulting trail of thoughts by guiding the hands.
"Walking organizes the world around us; writing organizes our thoughts."
Two Stanford researchers have, in fact, shown that walking boosts creativity by 60%.
So, here are the steps to killer content.
Go outdoors.
Walk a mile.
Come back.
Kill it.
