Why Novelty is the Best Drug for Brain Health (+ 61 New Things to Try to Spark your Creativity)

Logan Hailey
9 min readSep 7, 2021

If you’ve been in a rut, I have just the cure. It’s a harmless drug that improves brain health and sparks creativity.

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You know that feeling — when you are suddenly miraculously struck with a fire of newfound excitement after doing the same dull mundane routine over and over again?

Almost as if you’ve taken a dream-inducing drug, you are swept out of the bland daily same-old blah. Colors become more vibrant, your mind more clear.

What happened was, you made a new friend or met a beautiful new lover or you discovered a little cafe down the street or you took up a new hobby or you moved to a new town with intriguing new people and places.

The Drug of Inspiration

Novelty is the drug of inspiration.

It lights us up like a sunrise through the dawn. What had become the dim and cold mundanity of our repeated routines is suddenly replaced with glowing extravagance, like a gift on Christmas morning — at last, something new!!

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Logan Hailey

Vivacious nomad writer with a wild spark. Helping you optimize your wellness + mindset for the most joyful, natural, and healthy life possible.