How Coffee Place Makes You More Creative?

Most successful people in history have done their best work in coffee shops. Pablo Picasso, JK Rowling, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Bob Dylan - whether they are writer, painter, philosphers, people across nations and centuries have touched their creativity working away at a table in a cafe.

Since the Covid hit, everyone spent all time sitting in the cozy corner, sipping lattes and work remotly. By the time, everything came at their own place and we had to go out to work.

There are many ways coffee shops trigger our creativity in a way offices and homes don't. Research shows that the stimuli in these places make them effective environments to work, the combination of noise, casual crowds and visual variety can give us just the right amout of distraction to help us be our our shaprest and most creative.

The idea is that if you’re very slightly distracted from the task at hand by ambient stimuli, it boosts your abstract thinking ability, which can lead to more creative idea generation.

The idea is that if you are bit distracted from the task at hand by ambient stimuli, it boosts your abstract thinking ability, which can lead to more creative idea generation.

There’s also the fact that in a coffee shop, we’re surrounded by people who’ve come to do the same thing as us, which acts as a motivator. A 2016 study backed up this idea when researchers asked participants sitting next to each other in front of a computer to do a task on the same screen. The study showed that “simply performing a task next to a person who exerts a lot of effort in a task will make you do the same”.

There is also the fact that in coffee shop, we are surrounded by people who have come to do the same thing as us, which acts as a motivator. Researchers asked participants sitting next to each other in front of a computer to do a task on the same screen. T

“One of the biggest things about coffee shops is the social-facilitation effect: you go there, you see other people working and it puts you in a mood where you just naturally start working as well. Just observing them can motivate you to work harder.”

The combination of noise, casual crowds and visual variety can give us just the right amount of distraction to help us be our sharpest and most creative