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How to choose the right music for different tasks
The benefits of listening to music while working
How music affects productivity
The Best Way to Listen to Music for Productivity
Listen to music for 10 to 15 minutes before you start working.
- Listening to tunes you enjoy can put you in a better mood and relax you. Your brain releases the neurotransmitter dopamine, which gives you a “warm feeling of pleasure.”
- You may also get a hit of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which elevates your mood and can make it easier to focus.
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Music And Attentional Capacity
Unfortunately, listening to music also takes up some of your attentional capacity, meaning that if you listened to it while working, you’d have fewer resources left to direct toward the task at hand.
The exception is when you’re performing tasks that are repetitive ...
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The Illusion of Productivity When Listening to Music
Those listening sessions are likely making me less productive.
You’re having so much more fun that you feel more productive.
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When music helps productivity
- A noisy workplace makes your brain consume extra energy to process the noise. This reduces productivity for tasks in general. Thus listening to music can help, as it blocks out other inputs.
- Listening to music you like while doing repetitiv...
When music doesn't help with productivity
- Learning requires your brain to analyze and remember information. Listening to music while learning adds an extra load of processing and this can lead the brain to misinterpret or miss important information.
- When you listen to music that's new to you
Music Leads To Togetherness
- Large groups having a ‘social music’ experience lead to big changes related to closeness and bonding.
- Music also releases dopamine, which regulates our mood and is a big reason music has been eternally popular.
- Music, apart from being a common way to experience pleasure, a...
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