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Appearing Productive In A Coworking Space
I am quite new to the culture of co-working spaces.
They present an intriguing set of human dynamics that heralded back to self-directed study time in my high school library.
What do I mean by that exactly?
Well, I am not sure about your high school experience so I will tell you a little about mine and what it entailed:
- A large library filled with rows of bookshelves with desk spaces and roundtables for study
- Study periods would be a part of senior students' timetables
- During this period we had to report to the library
- We were told to choose a space and stay there and work because we were being given the “luxury” of having a study period
- During this time some would be diligently working, others would be sneakily checking their phones and others would be outright talking and disrupting.
- All while the librarian and an assigned study period teacher would roam the space doing behaviour management and causing a sense of anxiety for potentially being caught out slacking