Dr. Ben Rein
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But I think there's very clear evidence that when people are asked to, for instance, come up with creative uses for an object and they're either sitting here like we are or they're on Zoom, the people in person come up with a lot more ideas.
The ideas are generally better.
And it actually seems that the reason for that is because they're
the people who are meeting online are restricting their attention to the screen.
Where like in this room, for instance, there's lots of things to look at.
And you might think, oh, that book, okay, maybe it could be used as a bookend.
You come up with all these different ideas.
And the researchers found that the more people paid attention to their environment, the more creative they were, the more ideas they came up with.
So there might also be something about going to the workplace and changing environments.
But personally, my thought is,
It should be a blend.
I don't know if anyone's going to be happy jumping back to a traditional five day in the office work week.
And I think that's probably the most likely outcome as well, that we're going to see people continuing with, you know, one, two or the lucky will have three days at home per week.
You're definitely an extrovert, by the way.
I
I will.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The other big thing here, I mentioned the two psychological principles I think about all the time are number one, people like what they're good at.
The other thing is we want what we don't have.
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