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In a Good Place: How the Spaces Where We Live, Work, and Play Can Help Us Thrive

by Leidy Klotz

How surroundings shape everyday life

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How surroundings shape everyday life

Leidy Klotz connects physical environments with habits, feelings, relationships, and mental well-being. Moving among settings such as homes, offices, beach huts, backyards, and college dorms, the book considers how people’s engagement with place can support learning, social connection, emotional boundaries, and memory. It also offers practical design changes and examines how interacting with physical spaces can build skills that screens may erode. The central subject is the relationship between the places people inhabit and the ways they live within them.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in how home and work environments relate to behavior and well-being.
  • Readers seeking practical ideas for design changes that support social connection.
  • Readers curious about the roles of place in learning, memory, and emotional boundaries.

Themes

Physical environment and well-beingHabit and behaviorSocial connectionLearning and memoryEmotional boundaries

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Book overview

If you want to be in a better place, start with physical space. This essential guide gives us new tools to powerfully improve our mindset by making small shifts in the settings where we spend our lives.

From home to work and everywhere in between, behavioral scientist Leidy Klotz demonstrates that a thriving inner world requires thoughtful engagement with our surroundings. Our physical environment determines our habits, feelings, and relationships in ways that we don't often consider, until now. In a Good Place offers new practical wisdom, backed by Klotz's research and rigorous insight, to help us live happily and productively in space.

Immersing readers in locations from beach huts to modern offices, from the backyard where we once played to the college dorm where we forged lifelong bonds, he illuminates how consciously connecting with our physical spaces can increase our mental wellness.

Readers learn:

  • How engaging with physical spaces builds the very skills our screens erode
  • Which easy-to-implement design changes maximize social connection
  • How navigating a new place primes our brains for learning
  • What physical spaces teach us about drawing emotional boundaries
  • How physical places can keep memories alive
  • And much more
So many books address how to live a good life. This one is about where.
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