Working Together Is Better Than Working Alone - Stowe Boyd
Over at the Podio blog, in my Future Of Work series, I look at some recent research about social ‘flow’:
Charles Walker, of St Bonaventure University, wanted to test the idea that activities that lead people to a ‘flow state’ are more enjoyable when they are social, as opposed to solitary.
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Walker devised a study to compare the level of happiness (‘joy’) in solitary versus social activities, the details of which I leave to his paper. But bottom line, he contrasted solitary activities — like singing alone, cooking alone, gardening alone — with their social analogues — joining a jam session, cooking and eating with friends, acting in a play with others — and found that social activities seem to be inherently more satisfying. Once again, it seems that we are social in our deepest DNA.
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