By taking care in your choice of physical spaces and rituals, you can not only transform the experience of your efforts into something more interesting and sustainable, but more fully tap into your latent brilliance. The trick, of course, is in identifying your own personalized version of Mary Oliver’s long walks through the woods. The concrete advice that follows will help you in this pursuit. MATCH YOUR SPACE TO YOUR WORK An obvious heuristic for constructing a more effective space for your work is to match elements of your physical surroundings to what it is that you’re trying to
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