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Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in.

But there's a problem with this view. Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption.

Para ser creativo necesitas grandes bloques de tiempo sin interrupciones, pero el diseño de las oficinas modernas no lo permita. La mayoría de las empresas de moda como Facebook tienen grandes salas de trabajo, aunque hay excepciones como Fog Creek y Pixar, dónde cada programador o dibujante tiene su propio despacho.

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