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Level up your thinking by improving your work environment
Whether you work remotely or in an office, your environment can either enhance or diminish your ability to think, plan and create.
Can your environment have an impact on your ability to think? Yes, to a large extent, claims Clive Thompson in an article he wrote about our workspaces and how they can support (or diminish) your “extended mind.”
Thompson points out that in many cases, remote work has given many of us the opportunity to configure our home work spaces the way we want — which can enhance our ability to think, plan and create.
In other cases, working from home has had a negative impact — caused by having to work in cramped, overly busy spaces in our homes where distractions may be unavoidable.
Is it any wonder that workers are divided on whether or not to return to office work?
Thompson maintains that we’ve been using our physical workspaces to extend our thinking for years: Spreading out books, notebooks, notepads, sticky notes and other information sources next to your computer — and even the multiple tabs you have open on your web browser — amount to a form of distributed thinking. Each artifact helps us to remember something that we want to be…
