I love conversation and brainstorming, grabbing crazy and conventional ideas and wrestling them to the floor, knocking them around the room, and approaching them from all angles.
But silence is also helpful. No music. No talking. No phones ringing. Complete silence. You feel as if you're swimming underwater. Every stroke is noticed. Your energy is tangible.
Mahatma Gandhi would work in silence one day a week. His staff would bring in notes and he would scrawl replies. You can imagine the sense of peace it brought.
We underestimate the impact of fatique in the workplace. Our underestimation of the impact of sound is probably even greater. Not noise. Sound.
Experiment with this. Set aside some time over the next seven days and seek silence.
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