Unexpected Tips for Working Better

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   Why a best friend at work can help you do your job better by Audra Williams via Slack HQ “Having a good friend at work makes people feel more valued and appreciated, and leads to greater productivity and sense of belonging. And when things don’t go perfectly, the emotional support of a close work friend can help people address problems more constructively.”

2. 2.	If You’re Too Busy to Meditate, Read This by Peter Bregman via Harvard Business Review “Meditation brings many benefits: It refreshes us, helps us settle into what’s happening now, makes us wiser and gentler, helps us cope in a world that overloads us with information and communication, and more.”

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   Research backs up the instinct that walking improves creativity by Olivia Goldhill via Quartz “Last year, researchers at Stanford found that people perform better on creative divergent thinking tests during and immediately after walking. The effect was similar regardless of whether participants took a stroll inside or stayed inside, walking on a treadmill and staring at a wall. The act of walking itself, rather than the sights encountered on a saunter, was key to improving creativity, they found.”

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   6 Reasons To Embrace Procrastination by Stephanie Vozza via Fast Company “While both authors agree that unstructured or passive procrastinating is really laziness, they say that procrastination can be good when used in the right way. Here are seven reasons why you shouldn’t worry about putting off to tomorrow what you could do today.”