#16: Optimizing Workspace

 

Important things to consider around your workspace for enhanced focus and productivity.

  1. Keep the Screen height at or slightly above your eye level. If you have work with eyes looking down — it lowers your alertness (tells the mind you want to sleep). It also helps in a better Posture.
  2. Try and work ~50% of your time standing up. If you lots of meetings, one way can be to take the meetings standing up. You will be more alert as well as burn more calories.
  3. If you want to use music while working — go for Binaural 40Hz music — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZbhW2kg8M
  4. Have a lot of overhead light in the first 7–8 hours of working.
  5. The computer screen size should be roughly the width of your head. May be a couple of inches more. But a wider screen does not drive focus as your eyes do not converge at one point (which is a driving point for focused work)

All ideas from Huberman Lab Podcast on workspaces.

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