We’re often happiest when we’re working, despite the demands of modern work. I had three months between jobs about five years ago and I was so bored.
For many it’s the place we experience ‘flow’ the most – that sense of doing what we do well, when we can lose ourselves in the moment. Many of us work from home at least some of the time now, and we can make that experience more rewarding.We can optimize flow.
There’s means of creating environments that function well and feel good. Drop the office aesthetic, it reinforces the message that work is ‘duty’. These days. much of what we do is technological in texture, most of us use a computer everyday, so I think it’s important to inject some warmth, some life and sensuality. Make it pleasurable, establish some personal rituals. Come to think of it, do it in the office too!
Work boils down to right brain creative work and left brain logic. You can’t speed up the right-brain bit. It’s intuitive and hard to schedule. We do it best when it happens in its own time. Left brain depends on efficiency and process – plus very good tools. It’s fast, rational. linear. Each needs its own environement,so create them. Ethographers have shown that we all need our own desk in the office, a sense of our own little space, but that doesn’t mean we have to spend all day there.
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