Sometimes I just put the headset on, and I'll forget to turn the music and I lost myself working for 3 hours straight and All I heard is my tinnitus ringing during that hour and it doesn't bother me anymore lol
Do you design with or without music? Recently read a research paper stating music decreases productivity (but some light background music can increase creativity) Personally I’m almost always listening to something, should I not? 🥷
I‘m an Endel.io user for years, but listen to music as well. Always depends on the situation. Endel links a research study regarding this topic: biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.…
I have gotten so used to doing homework while listening to music that not having music is a bit “weird” to me. Also critical for me to cancel all the background noise and distractions (ofher people talking, etc.) I wonder if I am more productive without it though!
I think of music as a mood-lifter rather than a productivity tool. Does it make you get through an otherwise gloomy workday? Then it's welcomed—especially music that’s light on lyrics.
From my personal experience I can tell, my behavior has changed after the pandemic, which is caused from having too much zoom meetings, there was always some meeting sound n my ears and it was too much for me, and that may be a reason why I rarely work with music on nowadays.
For me, when doing anything requiring lots of thinking I use white noise or the noise cancellation setting on my headphones. Music is great when I have to get through a lot of known/repetitive tasks.
Focus work during non-meeting days is amazing to get into the flowstate. When I have more than 2-3meetings in a day I rarely play music.
Always playing music but yes some music is more distracting than others. Usually lean into chiller stuff when working.