Your Coworkers Are Changing Your Brain

This is not my research, but it's

research that I found that I was like,

how does everyone not know about this?

58,000 working hours across 11 different

companies. So, this is a massive amount

of data. What they found was that if you

sit within 25 ft of a high performer,

you improve your own performance by 15%.

What this implies is that our

performance is contagious. That highly

effective, highly charismatic people are

contagious in a good way. They actually

lift others up. When we see someone

who's sitting in nice high confident

body language, we are also more likely

to sit in confident body language. So

all of these cues are actually making

you be the contagious high performer. If

you sit next to a low performer, it

decreases your per performance by 30%.