Listening to Mozart does not make you smart
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Listening to Mozart does not make you smart
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#2Sure, listening to one piece before taking a standardized test doesn't help, but I would wager that truly appreciating Mozart, and certainly playing an instrument of any sort, does.
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#3We've been had! It's a shame that we will have to tell this to all the kids today who are constantly listening to Mozart.
All jokes aside, when I was a little bit younger and took my first philosophy course, I remember the professor saying something like "Garbage in, Garbage out." So let's say that listening to Mozart doesn't make you smarter. This, however, has no bearing on if other forms of music make you less smart (which I believe is very possibly true). Besides that, I find the most amazing thing happen when I listen to great classical music: I can actually think without the music interrupting my thoughts 95% of the time. The 5% of the time it does happen is only if I accidentally chose something to listen to that has vocals (Opera, which is amazing how great it sounds even though I have no idea what they are saying), or if it is something particularly raucous by Stravinsky.
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#4Listening to Baroque music might: http://brainbasedbiz.blogspot.com/2007/04/baroque-music-help...
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#5Mozart may not make you smart, but maybe it's that smart people listen to Mozart.
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#6I guess this explains all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_effect
I myself likes Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel. It help me think calm and clear (it's the peaceful and fun feeling).
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#7Well this ruins my strategy to become smart. Time to move onto plan B, "reading War and Peace and telling everybody about it".
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#8We've been had! It's a shame that we will have to tell this to all the kids today who are constantly listening to Mozart. All jokes aside, when I was a little bit younger and took my first philosophy course, I remember the professor saying something like "Garbage in, Garbage out." So let's say that listening to Mozart doesn't make you smarter. This, however, has no bearing on if other forms of music make you less sma…
I have the same experience but I don't do it anymore. Doesn't it just mean that with certain types of music we can ignore it enough to do other tasks? Why do we want to have inputs that we then ignore? If the music is worthwhile doesn't it deserve our attention?
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#9Sure, listening to one piece before taking a standardized test doesn't help, but I would wager that truly appreciating Mozart, and certainly playing an instrument of any sort, does.
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#10Sure, listening to one piece before taking a standardized test doesn't help, but I would wager that truly appreciating Mozart, and certainly playing an instrument of any sort, does.
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How is that relevant? He said that truly appreciating the music and learning an instrument would "help". He never said that it would improve every area of the brain and magically make you smart.