尽管如此，这里有个警告：幽默能分散注意力，也许会降低非创造性任务的效能。
There's a caveat, though: Humor can be distracting and may decrease performance on non-creative tasks.
领悟：使得自己在时间上推进；把你的创造性任务看作一年，十年或一百年的距离。
For insight: Project yourself forward in time; view your creative task from one, ten or a hundred years distant.
一组受试者首先做了一项无聊的任务，而另一组则直接去做创造性的任务。
One group of subjects did a boring activity first, while the others went straight to the creative task.
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