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I do the same! And changing the environment actually helps alot

If I changed the furniture I would get lost

I dress differently. Sometime I wear more conventional male clothes, other times woman clothes. Does the same for me. You should try it too!

I'd love to know what that optimization entailed, as a fellow single laptop screen dude!

can confirm that rearranging your furniture helps - did this every ~6months for the last ~5 years. Maybe it was just procastinating but it helped.

I’ll have to try this when I’m studying my mathematics

As a neurodivergent person, tysm for the advice 😅😭😭

Same! Especially those tasks that need focus I jump from couch to desk (different room). Often I lose focus there again and move back to the couch lol but: It works!

I also tried to go in the middle of a forest with a battery pack for the phone (Internet access through 4G, 5G) and my laptop. But that time there was too much wind to be able to concentrate efficiently (20 km/h and wind gust of 50 km/h). Will do it again as I love to be outside.

I know a neuroscientist who studied this in mice. It's because the same brain center and brain cells do memory and sense place. Basically all our memories are rooted in places. So leaving a place also means leaving the associated memories.

as an ADHDer, I absolutely recommend furniture rearrangement. It completely reinvigorates the feeling of the space. It’s new again and for me, my motivation is re-upped.

Yes. It works well. Your brain goes to same mode you were in your location (perceived by your senses like eyes and smells) and if you change these senses your brain reacts differently to that state and tries new connections through your neurons. This is my understanding from how neurons work.

Find the unpopular ones. As a bonus... bad coffee!

Yup. It's a distraction technique

Reality is matter

I just like to rearrange stuff for no reason

Yeah totally agree, and working outside every now and then helps as well

I miss this after moving to stationary PC from a laptop

This, and changing the color theme does wonders for me