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Annie Murphy Paul | The Next Big Idea

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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What Does Fidgeting Do?

Fidgeting can soothe us if we're feeling anxious. Or it can be sort of playfuland open our minds and, um, make us more open to new ideas. Catherine asbister notes that we usually spend almost all our time at work or often at school with these really sleek, hard, shiny faces of art are devices. And she thinks that a fidgeting with these objects sort of rminds us that we are human, that we are embodied.

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