Publication: 'The Mind works best at Running Speed' - by Peter Ampe
How to get your best ideas while running
Peter Ampe’s book is here to inspire, to motivate, and to encourage. The mind works best at running speed will get you out of your office chair, and thinking on your feet. While running, the mind clears and cleanses itself, and surprises the runner with his own thoughts. That’s exactly what creativity is supposed to be about. “I’ve always loved running,” says Peter Ampe. “And I’ve covered just about every official distance. From the 60m indoor, to the marathon. But these last couple of years I stopped running to break personal records. Instead, running started showing me things that are far more fulfilling.”
Walk at the right speed
Such as generating ideas. "I always wondered if I was the only one experiencing this," Ampe continues. "However, upon inquiry I found some other creative people who experience the same phenomenon There were also as many runners who claimed that running didn’t gave them any ideas. But there is a good reason for this: the ideas will only come if you run at the correct speed. That speed is for everyone different, too, which is clearly explained in the book."
To test his theory, Ampe also asked the opinion of an American professor of neurology. "Research on the impact of walking on creativity is as yet scarce. There is only evidence on the impact of walking on the brain. And because running is an enlargement of walking. The professor strongly believes in the hypothesis that walking leads to creative brain activity."
DDB Brussels
Author Peter Ampe is one of Belgium's most celebrated advertising creatives, previously at Duval Guillaume, now as Exectutive creative director at DDB Brussels and within the DDB group is also a member of the Global Creative Council. He spreads his passion for running with a new kind of book, no unnecessary text, but witty messages and inspirational images, like a Powerpoint or Keynote presentation.
'The Mind works best at Running Speed' is published by Borgerhoff & Lamberigts and, will be available from December 7 in all bookstores.
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