I love it when see the mainstream get how spaces affect us, reflect us, support us, and… oppress us. At the end of the day choosing where to spend our time can make all the difference in how productive we are and how good we feel.
Visionary and out-of-the-box thinker, Seth Godin, is one of the ones who gets it:
The space matters
It might be a garage or a sunlit atrium, but the place you choose to do what you do has an impact on you.
More people get engaged in Paris in the springtime than on the 7 train in Queens. They just do. Something in the air, I guess.
Pay attention to where you have your brainstorming meetings. Don’t have them in the same conference room where you chew people out over missed quarterly earnings.
Pay attention to the noise and the smell and the crowd in the place where you’re trying to overcome being stuck. And as Paco Underhill has written, make the aisles of your store wide enough that shoppers can browse without getting their butts brushed by other shoppers.
Most of all, I think we can train ourselves to associate certain places with certain outcomes. There’s a reason they built those cathedrals. Pick your place, on purpose.
–From Seth’s Blog
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