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Silence for relaxation
Silence is more relaxing than relaxing music.
In an experiment, the silence was used as a control between the different relaxing music clips. But the two-minute silent pauses between the music actually proved more relaxing on the brain.
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2 types of everyday "bad noise"
- Excessive noise: the prolonged loud noise.
- The distraction of general noise around us: conversations or interruptions from colleagues in the workplace.
The former may seem worse, but both can be detrimental to our productivity—and sanity.
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Best Work is done in Silence
Silence allows us to think about new solutions to problems, and to stick to our plans long enough to reach our goals.
According to psychologists, spending time in silence is when we are most creative.
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"In most workplaces, focused work is left to chance.If nobody's called you for a meeting that day, you might get an afternoon to yourself."
OLLIE CAMPBELL
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Noise is bad for health
It increases blood pressure, increases stress, disturbs our sleep.
And more importantly, it is linked to our bad mental health. It's why we don't have schools in the vicinity of airports anymore.
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6. Productivity and Silence
How do you measure productivity? If you are running on very little sleep and trying to complete as many tasks as possible in as short a time as possible, you may be missing out on the benefits of silence. In an article by
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- Silence, when used strategically and intentionally, can help negotiate great deals and generate new ideas.
- Prolonged silence can make others feel anxious, uncertain, less self-assured and even rejected, and the silent treatment hurts them more than any words could....
The music
Music on "Sesame" functioned in three ways: As backing tracks for animation and film clips, as live performances by well-knows guest artists, and as songs for the human actors and Muppets to sing.
The belief was that as the characters were of different ethnicities, the music should ...
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