Focus @ Will: music that helps you work
Tips Productivity / / December 19, 2019
Music has a profound effect on our state. It helps to relax, improves mood, sets the pace for our jog, sets a romantic mood and helps to work. What is important for your mood? Concentration, focus, flow - all of this is associated with productivity. And in order to achieve the desired flow conditions, it is necessary for long enough to hold all your attention on the job. And talk about it a lot easier than to reach this state.
And science has in this case its "music solution."
What is Focus @ Will?
Focus @ Will - is a new music service that allows you to pick the right music, which will allow you to achieve the desired flow state.
Register in seconds through the profiles of social networks, and enjoy your music stream. Classical, ambient acoustics - 6 different options for selecting musical compositions.
And now a bit of theory.
Why music helps us to work from a scientific point of view
Our feelings are a constant flow of the world around us - the smells, lights, sounds, tactile sensations. Birds chirping outside the window, the feeling of clothes on the body and the hands touch the keyboard, the smell of coffee and a thousand other little things - all fighting for our attention and as soon as you focus on one of these sensations, you will immediately distracted. Work in such a state is impossible, and here we have the support of what psychologists call "selective attention", that is, when we focus on the implementation of one specific action, in whole (but often partially) while ignoring everything that does not apply to workers process.
selective attention
selective attention It acts as a spotlight, which is pointed at something, and, like every spotlight, spot light can be broad and narrow. For example, now you're reading this and your spotlight focused on her and, most likely, the spot light is quite narrow and everything else fades into the background. But as soon as there will be something that will win your attention, you will immediately perefokusiruetes to a new stimulus.
And all these distractions and temptations of the modern digital world is so great that the work is getting harder and harder. So now one of the most important and exciting questions: "How to make so as to be in a state of flux as long as possible without falling out of it?"
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What scientists say about it?
Millions of years of evolution have given people the brain, which is well adapted to life in small, social, nomadic groups. The ability of our eye to distinguish the smallest details of the world around us, and your ears to distinguish sounds in the audio range from 20 to 20,000 Hz.
We have been specially designed by nature so to hunt, look out for the small fruits on the tree or in the grass, and the advance notice the approach of danger. Now the need for hunting and salvation from predators have disappeared, but our sensors are still working on the same system. The information obtained is converted into electrochemical language of our nervous system via the sensory cells of the system. For example, when you listen to music, the sound waves impinge on your eardrum and transferred to the cochlea of the inner ear, and it hit the microscopic hair cells that begin to hesitate. And it is their movement transforms the mechanical energy of the waves into chemical signals, which then travel along the nerves - that's so you can tell us very briefly about how we hear. There is a whole separate science - psychoacousticsWhich studies the perception of sounds and mainly focused on the music.
And, apparently, just sounds distract us, it means you need to work in silence. But most people are much better in a cafe filled with a rumble of voices of visitors mixed with unobtrusive music playing than in the library, which is filled with silence.
Some theorists say that this is due to the so-called cognitive overload when our brain just switches off the reaction to external stimuli. The process of getting used to the noise and move it to the section of the background takes about 20 minutes. Then you do not get distracted and able to focus on work. This is similar to how you are at a noisy party try to understand what a person is saying.
musical trick
The trick is to take your brain just enough so that while still let it work. And the music in this very helpful. Of course, so it acts, not every music, since each has its own melody and tone can cause in your memory for emotional images, which are not suitable for the job. Therefore, it is better to just choose the music, which does not cause any negative or positive emotions. It should be neutral.
Soothing music with 60 beats per minute can reduce neuronal activity and lead to a quiet, but active of - alpha-state as a result of which increases alpha activity and decreased beta waves of cerebral activity brain. This leads to the fact that you calm down and go into a state of flux.
Man is able to be in such a flow of 20 to 40 minutes. But if you know your circadian rhythms and apply them to their work schedule, the flow state can be extended to 1-2 hours!
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