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Poll: Your preferred music for working?
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#22I subscribe to the view that music hinders concentration more than it favours it. Your brain is forced to multitask, which is inherently more difficult than concentrating on one line of thought. However, I have seen it working in a pavlovian way, signaling to the brain that "it's time to work". This can be useful when conditioning people who struggle to concentrate for long periods.
It has been shown that at the very least music can actually help you concentrate such as the 'Mozart effect'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_effect
It's certainly not for everyone nor do I believe music should be played like you're having a party in your office for it to be effective.
Re: Poll: Your preferred music for working?
#23I subscribe to the view that music hinders concentration more than it favours it. Your brain is forced to multitask, which is inherently more difficult than concentrating on one line of thought. However, I have seen it working in a pavlovian way, signaling to the brain that "it's time to work". This can be useful when conditioning people who struggle to concentrate for long periods.
The problem is that in many cases you have to choose between assorted office/home background noises or music. In which case music (at least, known and predictable music) probably hinders concentration least.
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#24+1 for Techno / Electronica (Chemical Brothers - Further, for example)
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#25For working (finance) - no music. For coding (casual) - Trance. Something like AvB. It helps me get into that flow state & when I'm there I block it out completely anyway.
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#26A mix of different types - anything with a fast beat and hard sounds
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#27Funk and Blues
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#28Where's Alternative Rock? That's what I'm listening to most of the time. Sometimes it's Metal or just Rock. Sometimes it's nothing.
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#29I LOVE to work with some light/easy on the ears electronical music in the background (mostly remixes and some dubstep tracks).
I recently discovered tammyszu's Youtube Channel[1] and usually kick some of her playlists on when I arrive at work. She has over 500 videos, so every time it's something new... And almost every video is just amazing and refreshingly different and works super-well for me for programming.
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#30Dubstep - just try it
I once read on the web (I think on HN?) that Dubstep was made for programmers. I agree.