10 Life-Changing Gifts You Can Give Yourself
New scientific research offers surprising ways to shower yourself with tranquility, creativity, longevity and more.
By Gretchen Reynolds
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3. Creative Thinking
Volunteers who worked in rooms lit by a lamp with an incandescent lightbulb instead of overhead fluorescents solved problems requiring novel thinking more successfully. Scientists say the symbolism of the bulb, not just its light spectrum) led to the subjects' bright ideas, and cited "a growing body of research showing that perception of objects...can subtly influence our behavior."
From the
December 2011 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
