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Your Brain Thinks Your Whole Home Is One Room

CGP Grey · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Productivity & self-improvementManagement, leadership & organizations

What it is

CGP Grey argues that your brain treats a whole home as one room during lockdown, blurring work, rest and leisure. He recommends creating separate spaces and routines for different activities to stay balanced.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it constantly in work-from-home, burnout and procrastination threads as practical advice for separating work from life at home.

  • 17 people recommended it
  • 8 different months
  • 6 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “has an excellent video on this.”

    Separate spaces for activities while at home

    vorpalhex, 2020-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Google, Facebook make statements to staff about working from home for 2020”

  2. “I'd recommend these[1] two[2] videos from CGP Grey to help.”

    Coping strategies and space partitioning during lockdown

    Jetroid, 2020-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: How are you holding up?”

  3. “has been a really powerful re-calibration tool for me whenever I feel unbalanced”

    Recalibration tool for feeling unbalanced

    mark-ruwt, 2020-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: How are you holding up?”

  4. “i watch it once a week to keep things in perspective.”

    Helpful perspective, rewatched weekly

    goutham2688, 2020-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: How are you holding up?”

  5. “this is a must watch video!”

    Likely the video the other commenter meant

    ketanhwr, 2020-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?”

  6. “Checked out the video- really great!”

    Thanks for recommendation after watching

    randycupertino, 2020-11 · Strong recommendation · in “I Miss Working from the Office”

  7. “which I think you may enjoy if you haven't yet seen it.”

    Reflective lockdown video from CGP Grey

    vageli, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Orca: an esolang for audio-visual live coding”

  8. “CGP Grey did a video about the importance of having different spaces for different activities”

    Importance of different spaces for different activities

    teddyh, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Why are some people better at working from home than others?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: remote work, productivity, lockdown, routines, cgp grey

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