Research links creativity and inability to filter irrelevant sensory information

Re:Research links creativity and inability to filter irrelev... by js8 on Sunday December 13, 2015 @04:20PM (#10728001)

This is exactly why modern corporations love open spaces so much - so that people would get flooded with irrelevant sensory distractions and be more creative!

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Re:Research links creativity and inability to filter irrelev... by andyidsinga on Sunday December 13, 2015 @05:17PM (#10728217)

I was thinking along those lines too (with contempt), and realized its the NpBFY factor is the sort of sensory distraction that I think doesn't help with creativity.

(NpBFY - nose-picking, burping, farting, yakking)

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Re:Research links creativity and inability to filter irrelev... by collyw on Sunday December 13, 2015 @05:52PM (#10728322)

And a complete productivity killer for many software engineers.

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