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How to unlock creativity in the workplace

Forget drug use and hammocks. Try tedium instead

Academics do not contend to write the most entertaining research paper of the year. But Yu Tse Heng, now at the University of Virginia, Christopher Barnes of the University of Washington and Kai Chi Yam of the National University of Singapore should take a bow nonetheless. In a study published in 2022, the trio tested the widespread notion that cannabis increases creativity.

This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Unlocking creativity”

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