Environmental Psychology: How Your Surroundings Shape Your Mind
What is the physical context?
Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
A laptop operates the same whether it is open on a desk in an office or on a bench in a park. But human brains aren’t like that—they are exquisitely sensitive to context. One of the most fertile and fruitful places to “think with” is nature. That’s because, over eons of evolution, our brains were tuned to the kind of sensory information available
... See moreAnnie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
it is safe to argue that a reliable and standardised working environment is less taxing on our attention, concentration and willpower, or, if you like, ego.