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A new report living in a city makes it harder for people to . The research that people who live in rural areas can better than people in urban areas. The study is from Goldsmiths College, which is part of the University of London. Head researcher Dr Karina Linnell and her team how two groups of people did the same "thinking tasks". The team to a remote part of Namibia, southwest Africa, to the Himba tribe. Himba people a very basic life in the desert, doing traditional farming. The team also studied members of the same tribe who had to the nearest town. Dr Linnell said the tribe who lived in the desert much better on the tests than those in the town.

Dr Linnell's research may the way companies operate. In the future, workers may from cities to live and in the countryside. Linnell said there are too many things around us in the city that us from about one thing for a long time. This means we do not work at our best. She asked: "What if, for example, companies certain tasks would be better carried out by employees outside of the urban environment where their concentration ability is better?" The past century has billions of people move from the countryside to big cities. If Dr Linnell's research is true, this century might many of those people to the great outdoors.

 


 
 

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