My best thinking doesn’t happen at my desk.

Every morning I go for a 20-minute walk with one rule: no devices.

Just walking and thinking.

It is reliably when ideas untangle themselves. (And some days there’s a LOT of entanglement.)

I have long suspected there is something mechanical going on. Motion seems to free cognition.

Which is why I have always wondered about chewing gum.

The word ruminate literally means to chew.

And there’s something to it, proven by science.

A peer-reviewed study found that chewing gum improves alertness, attention, mood, and even productivity across a full workday.

Cortisol rose in the morning.

Cognitive lapses dropped.

Performance held steadier as the day wore on.

Nothing too magical or mystical.

A small, automatic, repetitive physical action appears to stabilize attention and keep the mind from sagging.

This can matter for product makers and marketers because thinking quality shapes decisions.

We often treat cognition as purely intellectual, when it is deeply physical.

The environments we design in, the rituals we encourage, even the micro-behaviors around our products influence clarity and confidence.

Sometimes the job is not to add stimulation.

It is to give the mind something simple to chew on so it can focus in on what matters.

Better thinking can come straight out of motion, rhythm, and space.

What is your most effective thinking technique? Hit reply and tell me, please!

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