Coffee shops boost your creativity

Do you ever find yourself being more creative and efficient at the coffee shop? Obviously, the environment around you and your ability to create have a strong connection. And the coffee shops, actually have pretty much all the factors needed to boost your work efficiency and creativity to the fullest.

First of all, this has to do with how your brain works under soft environmental sounds. Recent research shows that a little bit of background noise/sound can boost your creativity rather than hinder it. We tend to pay less attention to background noises than we do to foreground noises, and therefore, there is more mental processing power left over for other tasks. So, under environments that have sounds/noises like that, your brain can function faster and helps you to think outside the box by increasing openness and encouraging a flexible mindset.

Coffee shops always have calming background music, with the sound of people making coffee, talking to each other at a small volume, or the sound of staff cleaning up a table, etc. Those are the mix of sounds that help give you a brain boost. Therefore, if you are ever stuck on a problem, try going to a coffee shop nearby, or simply put on some white noises you can find on youtube.