“Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.” Frances Hardinge
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A cup of tea will bring several wonders to life.
Beautiful fragrances kept inside the cup's cascading steam will restore our
mind and health. Both soothing and tasty, tea helps your imagination to
develop, ideal for any big thought.
Researchers at Pekking University in China have published their
two Food Quality and Preference Experiments research that drinking tea will
boost your creativity. For the study researchers recruited a total of 90
university students -50 for the 1st experiment and 40 for the 2nd experiment.
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In the 1st experiment 50 students divided into two groups. One
group was offered to drink tea and 2nd group offered to drink water. After
drinking tea or water student has to perform a task on designing an attractive
building block for a toy factory. They were given 10 minutes to complete the
task. after which point photographs were taken to their designs.10 additional
University students who were blinded to the purpose of the experiment then
rated the design on an 11 point scale for innovativeness, aesthetic appeal,
unification, and grandness. The result revealed that the tea-drinking group’s
scores were much higher than the water-drinking group's.
In the 2nd experiment 40 university students divided into two groups. After drinking tea or water , students were asked to develop a “cool” name for a new noodle restaurant. Then they were scored by nonparticipating students for creativity and design. Similar to the 1st experiment, the researchers found that tea-drinkers had higher scores than water drinkers in this experiment.
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It’s interesting to me that the first experiment in the pair found that creative thinking could be improved even with a small amount of tea drunk over a short length of time — which brings up some interesting questions about whether long-term tea-drinking might have an effect on people’s creativity.
We do know that regular
tea drinkers do reap some health benefits from their beverage preferences; for
example, research has found that, over time, tea drinkers are less likely to
develop diabetes and have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Although it
is not clear that whole credit we can give to the tea itself or it is because
of the healthy lifestyles of Tea drinkers.
If we will see the
experiment, the sample size of students was very small 40/50, Amount of tea was
very small and the duration of time was also small. So we can not believe the
result blindly. Still, we can not ignore the relationship between tea and
creativity.
A lot of questions arise in
everyone's mind like:
Do people who drink a certain
amount of tea regularly do better on creative tasks than those who don’t drink
tea at all?
Or better than those who
drink it on occasion?
How do tea drinkers compare
with say, coffee drinkers when it comes to their creative thinking?
I believe in the future there
will be more experiments will be conducted by taking larger samples and
considering other factors to confirm the relationship between tea and
creativity.
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