Do you take breaks when you work?
I try my best not to. Because I need a certain flow while I’m working. Once I get to get into it, I’d like to stick with my lane.
Why?
Because if you get out, even just for a minute, it takes me at least another half an hour to get back to my “focused state” that I was in, sometimes even longer. And sometimes I’m completely out of it. I mean it’s just gone.
Don’t you have e-mails to check no phones to answer, etc.?
No, no, no! That’s gotta be taken care of some other time. Especially creativity is concerned. It’s a monster you don’t wanna mess with. If it happens to be in the room with you gotta take advantage of it, as much as you can. Milk it with extreme speed. It really does pour when it rains. But when it’s gone…oh boy!
What about people who don’t necessarily have to be creative at their work?
It may not exactly be the same, but still, if you’re talking about concentration, it’s better to be totally isolated, at least mentally, from anything or anyone that could possibly distract you.
What about the people who have to work at offices, share desks, etc.?
Depends on who you’re working with I suppose.
What do you mean?
I mean if your boss and co-workers understand how you function best and respect your space, I think you’d be fine.
But who can guarantee that?
I don’t know, but I think this is one of the biggest problems in this world that’s run by extroverts. They might not necessarily get the importance of space for an introvert. The thing is that they, meaning the extrovert bosses managers, would be the ones who would benefit from it the most, if they simply choose to aknowledge an introvert’s needs instead of trying to force a cookie-cutter system that does no good for no one, however odd they may seem
