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Creating a productive schedule
Avoiding procrastination
Prioritizing tasks effectively
Music helps us exercise
An American researcher, Leonard Ayres, found that cyclists pedaled faster while listening to music than they did in silence.
This is because music overrides the signals of fatigue while we are exercising, and our bodies do not realize we are tired.
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Motor and reasoning skills
One study indicated that children who had three years or more of musical instrument training performed better in:
- auditory discrimination abilities
- fine motor skills
- vocabulary
- nonverbal reasoning skills
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Classical music
In one small study, stroke patients showed improved visual attention while listening to classical music. Silence resulted in lower scores.
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Music and personality
Different genres correspond to our personality. For instance:
- Blues and Jazz fans have high self-esteem, are creative, outgoing, gentle and at ease
- Classical music fans have high self-esteem, are creative, introvert and at ease
- Opera fans have high self-esteem, are cre...
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Music can distract our driving
Another study tested drivers while listening to their own choice of music, silence or “safe” music provided by the researchers. The results showed that drivers made more mistakes and dr...
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Ambient noise can improve creativity
A moderate noise level is ideal to improve our creativity. It increases the processing difficulty which stimulates abstract processing, leading to higher creativity.
High noise levels impair our creative thinking because we feel overwhelmed and struggle to process informati...
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Happy/sad music
Our brains respond differently to happy or sad music.
One study revealed that participants interpreted a neutral expression as happy or sad to match the tone of the music they heard.
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Effects music can have on us
- The physical effect. We subconsciously match what we are doing to what we hear. One study found that diners chewed at a faster pace when higher-tempo music was played.
- Associations that music can trigger and how our environment can affect those associations. D...
Skewed perception
Some scientists think that music doesn't help us at all. It's possible that we view the ability to listen to music as a privilege from our employers, and convincing ourselves that we are working harder in turn.
In some contexts, music is actively detrimental, such as problem-solvi...
When you blame yourself
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