[valenceelectron]

Thanks for your insights. At the end it's a very personal thing that varies a lot among people. Your statement about the setting is also very much true for me. I do work better in public settings and enjoy the atmosphere of people working around me. Interestingly, this effect seems to wear off. A certain location does not help indefinitely. Switching it up alleviates this problem. But maybe that's just me.

Unfortunately, the university library is inconveniently far from my new apartment and the local library has opening hours that are incompatible with my full-time job. Well, I'll find a way.