Why noise is necessary for our brains to perform at a high-level
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Why noise is necessary for our brains to perform at a high-level
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#2This article does everything except actually answering the question in the title.
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#3I am Deaf myself and using my hearing aids all of my life. One thing I discovered that silence is the best productivity focus for me. During my job, I always keep my hearing aids off. This helps with my ADHD as I am easily distracted when there is a sound involved, sometime causes me to ‘hyperfocus’ in my “world” than doing my job. And interesting that I found that keeping my hearing aids off makes the time around me become slow. With the hearing aids on, it amplified the stimulation on my brain in a way which make it feel like the time is in turbo mode.
I recently discovered this “ability” and start doing my job without hearing aids. Basically, silence is golden for me and helps a lot with my productivity.
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#4I am Deaf myself and using my hearing aids all of my life. One thing I discovered that silence is the best productivity focus for me. During my job, I always keep my hearing aids off. This helps with my ADHD as I am easily distracted when there is a sound involved, sometime causes me to ‘hyperfocus’ in my “world” than doing my job. And interesting that I found that keeping my hearing aids off makes the time around me…
I have similar issues with distractibility with sounds. Music sometimes helps, and white noise is good, but sometimes I’d love to be able to just turn my ears off.
The worst situation is feeling the need for enough audio stimuli to feel “right”, but that level is too distracting to allow for focus.
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#5I am Deaf myself and using my hearing aids all of my life. One thing I discovered that silence is the best productivity focus for me. During my job, I always keep my hearing aids off. This helps with my ADHD as I am easily distracted when there is a sound involved, sometime causes me to ‘hyperfocus’ in my “world” than doing my job. And interesting that I found that keeping my hearing aids off makes the time around me…
I have ADHD, and when it works well, the hyper-focus effect is similar to what you describe with your hearing aids turned off.
But for me, the outside world's time seems to go faster, not slower. It's like the more I'm focusing on my task at hand, the less I notice the passage of time around me.
I'm curious why our hyper-focus experiences differ in that way.
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#6Why not phrase this as “things not seen as distracting can help, while things seen as distracting can hurt”. For me, I can often debug real well to tunes as long as there’s no words. Having to listen to words breaks the flow. But to create hard code please leave me alone, go away and shut the door.
Re: Why noise is necessary for our brains to perform at a high-level
#7Why not phrase this as “things not seen as distracting can help, while things seen as distracting can hurt”. For me, I can often debug real well to tunes as long as there’s no words. Having to listen to words breaks the flow. But to create hard code please leave me alone, go away and shut the door.
Same with me as well but add music with language I don't understand.
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#8went looking for some interesting neurological findings and found a very poor repurposing of a Nate Silver quote that was referring to statistics, not neurology.
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#9I am Deaf myself and using my hearing aids all of my life. One thing I discovered that silence is the best productivity focus for me. During my job, I always keep my hearing aids off. This helps with my ADHD as I am easily distracted when there is a sound involved, sometime causes me to ‘hyperfocus’ in my “world” than doing my job. And interesting that I found that keeping my hearing aids off makes the time around me…
I have ADHD, and when it works well, the hyper-focus effect is similar to what you describe with your hearing aids turned off. But for me, the outside world's time seems to go faster , not slower . It's like the more I'm focusing on my task at hand, the less I notice the passage of time around me. I'm curious why our hyper-focus experiences differ in that way.
My theory it is something to do with our senses. Since I have a hearing disability, so that ‘hearing’ sense is not functioning as in turn amplifying my other senses. I am going with the assumption that you are hearing (it a Deaf community lingo for people who have functioning hearings), so you have five senses operating at the same time. For me, I only have four senses operating at the same time. So with the hearing aid, my hearing sense will be “on” which maybe put more work for my brain to process everything else. Without the hearing aid, which my hearing sense is simply off. So, my brain can spend all of the “processing power” into other four senses which made me feel like the passage of time becoming slow. That is my theory is what I have so far. I don’t know if this is valid theory.
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#10This article does everything except actually answering the question in the title.
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