I know that your environmental conditions legitimately matter when you are performing a task.
I never realized how sensitive I was to external stimulation until fairly recently! For most of my life I have been able to live and labor in a fairly controlled environment.
I have lived alone and I have worked from home. As such, I have been in charge of my entire set of environmental conditions, from the lighting to the sounds that surround me. I was in for a sizable surprise when I went back to working in an office a few months ago. Suddenly, I realized how reliant I was on my indoor air handling devices and control equipment tyranny at home. I never legitimately observed before but my indoor air temperature control equipment played a sizable part in my monthly work. Because I was always at cabin with my own central heating and cooling system I was able to adjust the control equipment although I wanted to. This month, my air conditioning equipment and forced air heating system were always running throughout the afternoon. I got legitimately accustomed to the sound of my air conditioning equipment outside my office window. I was used to hearing the forced air heating system chugging away from the basement. When I entered the modern workforce and returned to working in an office… Suddenly it was way too silent without an aged Heating as well as A/C system running all the time. After several unproductive weeks wishing that I had my normal indoor air handling devices to drown out the sounds of my coworkers I went out and bought a background noise machine.