How To Know If You’re Working With Mammals Or Reptiles (And Why It Matters To Your Creativity)
Can you pick out the reptiles in your workplace (And no, not the ones who do finger pistols and prey on interns)? According to neurophysiologist Stephen Porges, if you want to be creative, you want to be on the lookout for the scaly types, and seek out the mammals instead.
Which is why if you’re doing creative work—the kind that thrives on connecting people and ideas—you should be working in a safe, “mammalian” office. As Porges says, “we really are not creative and integrative and social unless we feel safe.”
