Stop Forcing Focus and Give Your Desk a Neuroscience Glow-Up |
Decluttering isn’t a fad, it’s science.
Your brain is a contextual learner, and right now it’s learned that your desk equals stress.
Adding one simple item to your desk could activate your focus.
My 8 year old took over my office with 3D printed dragons and resin ducks.
When I started my business we converted the spare room into my office and it was glorious.
It was the one room in our house that wasn’t covered in construction paper crafts and stuffed animals.
It was a place I could sit down with a happy sigh, looking at my color-coded book shelves.
It was where I got work done.
But then my daughter got older…her toys multiplied…she needed a desk of her own…and my once organized office was turned into a blanket fort every weekend.
It became a place where I was definitely not getting much work done.
Then I realized I didn’t need an office with a perfect Pinterest aesthetic to get my brain to focus.
I just needed to harness some simple neuroscience.
Turns out, "location, location, location" applies to productivity too
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In a classic study, Scottish researchers D. R. Godden and Alan Badley had scuba divers listen to a list of words. The test? Would they remember more words if they were tested again underwater or on land?
They found that when scuba divers learned........