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Optimal environment design sets up physical conditions for peak states

Set up your physical surroundings to inspire optimal states of body, emotion, and mind. Focus on creating conditions where you feel optimistic, energetic, and capable of creating something new or valuable. You need to create a completely different ecosystem that supports your desired results, not your past results. This includes changing your office space, removing distractions, and possibly changing the people you interact with and your location. Environmental control is one of the highest-leverage investments an entrepreneur can make, because your environment is constantly sending signals to your nervous system — signals that either support or undermine the state you need to do your best work.

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Set up your physical surroundings to inspire optimal states of body, emotion, and mind. Focus on creating conditions where you feel optimistic, energetic, and capable of creating something new or valuable. You need to create a completely different ecosystem that supports your desired results, not your past results. This includes changing your office space, removing distractions, and possibly changing the people you interact with and your location. Environmental control is one of the highest-leverage investments an entrepreneur can make, because your environment is constantly sending signals to your nervous system — signals that either support or undermine the state you need to do your best work.

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