Yes our brains are sometimes strangers of their own. If you're realizing that you have problems to concentrate in quiet environment and that you need a backgrou

Yes our brains are sometimes strangers of their own. If you're realizing that you have problems to concentrate in quiet environment and that you need a background noise - then half of the work of self reflection has been done by you. The other half is to understand what is the difference to the millions who need quiet rooms? Me too, I enjoy working in a office and hate it to work from home (too quiet). But that's for the light stuff and for the distractions, which I need to release the concentration build ups - to be effective. I need my cig everything 15 to 20 mins - as this is exactly the time one should do a pause anyway. I also would answer like "we are different. I can't work like 2h without a break. I need my cig and concentration can't be kept up longer then ten mins and then needs an refresh" thats my experience I'm taking off. But then, having quit smoking for a period of time, I noticed that I have much more time left for my work. Per hour 3 cigs means you actually have 42 mins of 60 mins left, within a work day of 8 hours, that would mean 3x8x6mins == 144 mins or 2h wasted within a day. But what did make me reflect with even more criticism on my life's experiences is the fact that while quitting smoking and regaining the 2h spend on cigs daily - my productivity rose more than this additional 2h would suggest. In two/three days smoke free I did the work of weeks. So I made an controlled experiment and found out, it's not the wasted time of 2h for smoking, but rather the 6 mins of break taken whenever I thought "I have to think about that problem while smoking outside". That was a break in my process of thinking. And, I realized that finished smoking after, a few minutes are needed to find one's way into thinking again. And that's the problem. Because then, a cig costs me 10 mins instead of 6. So I was unconsciously wasting half of my working time, just because I was sure I need a break and a cig because it's like that and I can't do without. In the end I started smoking again and kept my new gained-by-experiment-knowledge out of reach of my then-Boss. So the difficulty, like everywhere in one's life, is to think and to analyze and to admit being wrong at smthg, rather then pure talking out of experiences without any reflection on this. Actually it's a disability and discomfort to admit one was wrong :) I don't tell you how and where you should work. I just said, work in a noisy environment like a cafe bears too much of distractions and one has to realize that first..