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One thing that also matters, that people tend to neglect, is ceiling height. In general when you need to do focused concentrated work, it’s best to work in a room with a low ceiling, the lower the better. Ideally it’s a ceiling you could almost touch.

If you need to do more creative thinking, it is better to have a high ceiling, the higher the better (think cathedrals), though there must be a ceiling at some point.



Citation needed.


Here is an example article[0] and a research study from Oxford[1] which reinforce the claim.

[0] https://www.fastcodesign.com/3043041/why-our-brains-love-hig...

[1] http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/519146


Seems a bit of a stretch to state this as a global fact. May be true for you, but personally I hate when ceiling's are too low, it makes me feel claustrophobic.

One size fits all decrees like this are almost always baloney.




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