> sit down in a warm or hot room While I agree with everything else, I'd have to vehemently disagree with this. Studies [1] have shown that warm temperatures s

> sit down in a warm or hot room While I agree with everything else, I'd have to vehemently disagree with this. Studies [1] have shown that warm temperatures severely diminish our performance on complex mental tasks. As some examples [2]: > Sales for scratch tickets, which require buyers to choose between many different options, fell by $594 with every 1° Fahrenheit increase in temperature. Sales for lotto tickets, which require fewer decisions on the part of the buyer, were not affected. > participants were asked to proofread an article while they were in either a warm (77°) or a cool (67°) room. Participants in warm rooms performed significantly worse than those in cool rooms, failing to identify almost half of the spelling and grammatical errors (those in cool rooms, on the hand, only missed a quarter of the mistakes). [1] https://www.bauer.uh.edu/vpatrick/docs/Influence%20of%20Warm%20versus%20Cool.pdf https://www.bauer.uh.edu/vpatrick/docs/Influence%20of%20Warm... [2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/warm-weather-makes-it-hard-think-straight/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/warm-weather-make...