Most of the people around me listen to music while working. I see them with ear-phones/ headphones, nodding their heads, enjoying their music, and their work. Even I have tried that lots of times, and miserably failed. I have found that if I am in the midst of something serious and interesting, which requires a lot of my concentration, I just can't listen to music. If I am listening to it, I lose the hang of whatever I am doing and my mind gets involved in the music.
The music just takes over the whole of my mind and I sort of lose my context completely.
I don't know. It might be that I am poor at concentration, or it may be that I am more interested in music, or it might also depend on what kind of music I listen to.
But, whatever it is, this is how I am...
7 comments:
Right Srk,I very much feel like the same way.Its alright if I am just going through some non-technical documents.But if it requires some amount of concentration then I simply have to turn off the music.Maybe our brains are not inherently programmed for multitasking :)..
I dont think thats true i believe that we have been trained to do only one thing at a time and so we tend not to use it efficiently , it probably just requires some decoupling and practice to start using all our senses paralelly for different things.
Well .. I think our brains have a lot of capabilities of Multitasking. Even what we have never heard of.
And by the way there a lot of types of music. Music which require u to ponder over. Music which stimualtes the brain internally. Music which rattles u all over.
I can do both listening to music while working or reading or anything except while talking :-)
While coding I listen to music. Dont ask me what was the song. But I have observed that at that time my brain responds very well. May be music acts as the stimulator ... I dont know..
And any way i dont underestimate Human Brain.....
Hmmm...what you say applies to me to. To me, music comes in two categories: music that hurts and everything else.
Any music which belongs to "Everything else" is pretty listenable and pretty much takes over my mind.
I find myself humming and getting interesting images: not at all relevant to what I'm trying to do.
It depends upon person to person, and unless this really threatens your efficiency, it's not something you should fight.
I kind of agree with all of you. It definitely depends from person to person, as the variety in the comments to this post itself shows.
Well, many a times I listen to music. But you can hardly call what I do as "work". In fact, I work for 20% of the time & waste the remaining 80% of the time checking mails, listening to music, etc. So, I cannot exactly determine whether music is a hinderance to work or not. But one thing is for sure. I cannot listen to music if I have to do any serious thinking. esp., with headphones. I sometimes have the speaker on (in a low volume) when working.
I can work like that only if I am doing something without thinking.
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