"Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands, they just don’t."
Scientists have proven that this line, which Reese Witherspoon delivers while playing Elle Woods in the 2001 movie, Legally Blonde, is true — the happy endorphins part, not the shooting part.
For decades, researchers have repeatedly studied the link between physical exercise and improved mood. Up until recently, however, researchers have been unable to draw conclusive evidence that links physical exercise to improved creative thought.
While there is anecdotal evidence that creative types are “unblocked” when they get up and move around, a new study from Scientific Reports suggests that physical exercise triggers enhanced mood and improved creativity. And, most importantly, they work independent of each other. In other words, there’s no linear cause and effect wherein movement boosts mood and mood, in turn, boosts creativity.
The study sought to determine if ...
