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Home Office Is Sabotaging You

9 days ago
  • #productivity
  • #mental health
  • #workspace design
  • Your home office may be optimized for focus but is taxing your nervous system, leading to fatigue.
  • A 60-second scan reveals issues like facing away from the door, sealed blinds, and lack of ambient life, which keep your nervous system on high alert.
  • Bruce Alexander's Rat Park experiment shows environment affects behavior; a better space can reduce dependency on screens.
  • Four steps to improve your workspace: open the blinds, create a Digital Hearth with ambient life, unseal your ears by removing noise-cancelling headphones, and add a second chair to signal openness to connection.
  • These changes can help your nervous system relax, improving focus and reducing background threat detection.