When Your Brain Doesn't Match the World Around It: Designing Environments for Cognitive Performance (Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash) Identifying the Environmental Mismatch A lot of the struggle that gets labelled as personal failing is really a mismatch problem. Struggling to concentrate in an open plan office isn't necessarily a discipline issue, it might be a nervous system reacting honestly to constant noise and movement. Losing track of time isn't always carelessness