Listen to the silence, or the metronome
Tips / / December 19, 2019
Study the influence of music on the mood of the audience and their productivity are maintained for decades. It is obvious that if we work to listen to your favorite music, then get down to the task with enthusiasm and good humor. It is likely that a good mood will allow us to complete more cases in the next hour. And there - a new break and again music.
The question is whether we will achieve the same effect, if we listen to music while working? Scientists are not sure. At the time, a team from Wales, led by researcher Nick Perhemom, conducted the following experiment.
Several groups of participants in the experiment offered to remember, and then play in a proper manner a series of eight consonants shown them. People placed in different sound environments. One was silent. In the other game is popular light music - Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and so on. The third - a nasty hard music (Thrashers group of Death Angels, if anyone is curious). In the fourth random background sounded random numbers (e.g., 4, 7, 1, 6, and so on). Finally, in the fifth as the background regularly repeated only one digit - 3.
The worst results showed the environment with music and the ever-changing numbers. Better proved the constant repetition of threes. But in the first place by their ability to concentrate and remember the dates of the letters was, of course, silence.
Researchers with a certain surprised to find that the fact whether your favorite music or not, does not affect the amount of harm done to our attention during the work. They recommend to listen to music before you start to work, and work in silence.
I am absolutely sure of two things. Firstly, the silence does help, but get used to work very hard in silence. Second, the results show only the typical rather than the individual picture.
Each person has their own relationship with the music. For example, I can not listen to bard songs and at the same time work. At the same time, the rapid composition with a dynamic rhythm like Big in Japan Group Guano Apes definitely organize and pushing me.
On the other hand, one should not completely ignore the results of the study, especially the part where states more favorable than the music, the influence of repetition on our ability to focus on. Not all think that actually it is a metronome, which is not worse than the rhythmic song is able to maintain a certain speed of our thoughts.
By the way, the text has been typed on a pilot basis under the metronome sound from the site metronomeonline.com. There the metronome is free, it allows you to set the tick rate and not very boring. Another thing is that the very rigor of its rhythm sometimes exasperated.
Start with silence. Operate a couple of days, not including music. Stop yourself when you want to play your favorite tune. If it becomes absolutely unbearable, help yourself examples. If you can help it, you know that Boris Strugatsky works exclusively in silence.
If you find that quiet relaxes you or does not set the necessary rhythm, take the headphones, earplugs and try the metronome. Just place it on too frequent a knock. Perhaps, you should not install it on a frequency higher than the frequency of your pulse. Replace the lowest division (this is about 40 ticks per minute) and gradually increase if you feel that the time drags like a turtle.