"The best working environment I ever had was when I was in college- the top floor of our library was a big study room with individual cubicles, and it was absol

"The best working environment I ever had was when I was in college- the top floor of our library was a big study room with individual cubicles, and it was absolutely silent. It was the one place I could really zone out and get work done because once I was firmly planted in a cubicle, I could focus solely on the task in front of me." I also found the presence of others and absence of my own stuff kept me from task avoidance strategies.