"If your smartphone is contributing to these distractions, then your smartphone is an object that should not remain in the environment where you work."
Whenever i want to relax, i used to make smart phone as my exit point. Slowly, but unknowingly, my mind got into this whirlpool and everything went astray in no time.
"if I were working on an important documentary about nature, I would decorate my surroundings with objects, thoughts, and pictures that would give me new creative ideas about this subject, or at the very least prevent my mind from leaving the ambiance of that world around which my work forms.
100% correct. Even if nothing productive comes to our mind, the atmosphere surrounding us will keep us intact with our WORK without any disconnection!