Music yields productivity?
Posted Tue, 25 Apr 2006
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?
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....