Science Says Decluttering Your Work Environment Improves Your Focus & Productivity
If you notice yourself getting distracted more often than you’d like, it might be time to declutter your work environment. Many different studies show that working in a minimalist, decluttered environment is beneficial to your ability to focus, thus making you more productive.
If you’re anything like me, your work environment can get a little messy from time to time. The problem is that every object or element in your vision fights for your attentional space, making it harder to focus intensely on the work at hand. That’s why, for the sake of our productivity, we need to start decluttering our work environment.
How Our Brain Deals With Clutter
For each object in our environment, there are two options for the brain to choose from:
- Ignore the object and filter it out to protect our focus for the work at hand.
- Direct attention towards this object or element in the form of thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
The first option is the most common. Most objects and elements are filtered out to protect…
