Andrew Huberman explains how to adjust lighting, physical posture, and sound to optimize cognitive focus, creativity, and productivity in your workspace.
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In this episode, I discuss ways to set up your workspace to optimize productivity, focus and creativity. I discuss how to adjust light, physically arrange your work environment, and leverage body posture to enhance productivity. Additionally, I explore how to shift your work environment for particular types of tasks. Moreover, I review the role of body movement in the workspace. I also discuss sound-based tools that can either enhance or diminish cognitive functioning (the ability to focus on deep work). I describe a particular frequency of binaural beats that studies show can be used to enhance memory and recall. This episode covers quality peer-reviewed findings practical tools anyone can use, regardless of budget, in order to optimize their workspace to achieve heightened levels of productivity, increased alertness and focus, and creativity.
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Links:
The Influence of Ceiling Height: bit.ly/3gcB31K
Heating, Ventilation, & AC Noise During Mental Work: bit.ly/3rbG69c
Office Noise & Employee Concentration: bit.ly/3AMoJPa
Effects of a Workplace Sit-Stand Desk Intervention on Health & Productivity: bit.ly/3reelwF
Effects of Binaural & Monaural Beats on Attention: bit.ly/3IN2Wda
40-Hz Binaural Beats Enhance Training to Mitigate the Attentional Blink: go.nature.com/35BVrYh
Timestamps:
Arranging Environment for Focus
LMNT, AG1 (Athletic Greens), Theragun
How to Increase Focus
Lighting Your Work in Phase 1
Lighting Your Work in Phase 2
Lighting Your Work in Phase 3
Where to Look While You Work
Arranging Your Environment
Body Posture
How Long to Do Deep Work
Set the Right Visual Window Size
45 min / 5 min Rule
The Cathedral Effect: Analytic vs Creative Work
Leveraging Background Noise
Binaural Beats for Work
The Best Binaural Frequency for Work
How Binaural Beats Increase Focus
Minimizing Interruptions
Sit or Stand, or Both?
Movement in the Workspace
Summary & Shifting Work Environments
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On “Ask HN: Any scientifically proven techniques to boost concentration?”
Dr Huberman from Stanford has a great weekly podcast where he talks about how to improve all parts of your body/mind for various activities(sleep, exercise etc.). Here’s one on improving productivity: link to this video One of the tips from the video that I really love is called the cathedral effect. It was found that having high ceilings increases your creative capacity when doing an activity.
On “Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation”
…how we move and focus our eyes. Our eyes are the only part of our brain exposed to light and air. It turns out that how we move and focus them affects the rest of brain function. Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist at Stanford, has researched and spoken about this deeply and at length. Here are three podcast episodes where he dives in: linklinklink to this video I think all three points in these comments can be right: 1) we need alone time; 2) sharing physical space can help creativity; 3) virtual meetings can hurt it. But we have to isolate the variables. Shared physical space for creative sessions doesn't have to mean open offices, and it doesn't have to mean eliminating solitude. We should also…
On “White noise improves learning by modulating activity in midbrain regions (2014)”
Andrew Huberman saying in a podcast that it's not the case for verbal recall: link to this video Interesting podcast, btw. got it from HN few days ago.
On “Ask HN: How do you organize work and personal computers at your home office?”
I will not reply to the topic as I do not have any interesting bits to share, however Huberman Lab did a whole episode on optimising workspaces. 1[video ].
