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Wed, 26 Apr 2006

Music yields productivity?

I almost always listen to music. I've mentiond this before, but I was reminded tonight of how music seems to make projects happen quicker; especially school projects. Tonight I was working on my Algorithms class project (spanning tree stuff) and found that I was working better than normal. This is due to my finally having found some music to put in my laptop and listen to.

Rochester radio is the absolute definition of excessive repetition. Of the 11 stations I have programmed into my receiver, none of them were playing a refreshing list of songs I hadn't heard in a while. So I put in a Nightwish cd and listened to that instead. Productivity increased.

Assuming the following theories:
Music = Productivity
Xterms = Productivity

If you increase xterms and the quality of music, how much can we increase productivity by? ;)

Music may work well for me because I tend to get distracted or bored easily when doing required tasks such as school work. If there's music playing I like, then I'll end up distracting myself momentarily with the music instead of other more time-consuming tasks such as reading news/blogs. Either way, music works.

Makes me wonder how many other people do the same thing?

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4 responses to 'Music yields productivity?'

Eric Law posted at Fri Dec 1 13:01:44 2006...
I listen to music almost all the time.
I've found, however, that the beats-per-minute or tempo must match my mind-state...
It would be interesting to have some random instramental music track playing whose tempo could be increased as easily as turning the volume knob on my keyboard.  That way I could set the tempo to match my mood, and when I needed a little push, just rotate the knob.  I wonder how high it would go....

Jordan Sissel posted at Fri Dec 1 13:10:07 2006...
There's a product you hook into iTunes that does just this. It's meant really for workouts, but can be used anywhere.

The product name escapes me, but it was featured on a A-list blog recently (lifehacker, or engadget?).

Sarah posted at Fri Apr 27 15:50:44 2007...
Me and my group has been working on a scientific project similar to this. I have been working on this for quite some time now. I would appreciate it if anyone could please send me some information or maybe another way we can do this expirement. Anyways, Thank you all who do respond.
Thanks, xoxoxo
Sarah

Sarah posted at Fri Apr 27 15:52:36 2007...
e-mail is sbell@seisd.net,


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