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Whereas when the ceiling is higher or there's no ceiling, the more that the brain and the rest of the processing that we call cognitive processing, is related to abstract reasoning, brainstorming, and indeed can pull from broader swaths of memory resources, because really what abstract reasoning is, is it's taking the existing elements and maneuvering them, arranging them into novel ways.
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The difference in cognitive processing, and abstract thinking and detailed analytic work that people are able to perform in environments that have a 10 foot ceiling versus an eight foot ceiling, which is not that much of a difference, there's just two foot difference there.
And again, the lower the ceiling or the lower your visual environment, the more that one tends to do where I should say performs detailed analytic work accurately. And the more that one's thinking is oriented towards detailed sort of correct answer type work.
And what they found were significant effects whereby high ceilings, activate concepts related to abstraction, whereas low ceilings prime confinement related concepts, but, or promote the kind of detailed thinking that lends itself well to sort of spreadsheet type work or accounting type work.
If you're going to do analytic work for any part of the day, phase one or phase two as I describe them, but really in any time of day, that detailed analytic work for which there is a correct answer, then try and get into an environment with a relatively low ceiling.