Your Weekly Challenge:

REMINDER: You don’t have to do the challenge! See it as an idea on how to spend your week more productively.

Focus more deeply in your work. Instead of playing catchy music in your study\work session, commit to only studying with Music that increases focus, based on scientific evidence proof.

Types of music that increase flow(scientifically proven):

Jazz, Electronic, Classical etc.

Your Weekly Inspirational Story:

“[…]

I lead this program my team designed called “MindSpace” and part of it was designed by my friend and Music Therapy genius, Pablo.

He is an amazing jazz musician as well and we both live in Miami, but I mostly work in Silicon Valley and LA.

[…]

We found that for the great majority of people different types of music worked for different modes of work.

Silence or white noise works very well for some people, and often walking through the companies I consult for you will see people with noise cancelling headphones on,

sealing out the world and dropping into flow.

EDM and rhythmatic music without words at different tempos really work well (trance, etc.) for writing code or knocking something out.

Words almost always distract.

Mozart and Bach are frighteningly consonant and work well in the background, especially in the mornings.

Often I will use different music to set the mood for events and , yet it is scientific and never about preference.

Deeply understanding music theory and the recent brain science findings is critical.

[…]

Since we use Theory U extensively we have stops for quiet contemplation, but I often choose pieces of music to listen to that evokes something.

Nearly always symphonic, opera (soooo lyrical, dramatic), quartet/quintet or some other piece for effect.

The issue is again what are you trying to evoke? Creativity? Flow? Back and forth communication?”

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!!!- I advise you to write the answers down on paper, as they help you figure out stuff about yourself, which you might find useful later on!

Reflective-thinking question:

-Which type of music do you listen to while studying? Does it distract you?

-What are you trying to evoke through music when studying(Flow, creativity, etc.)?

Critical-thinking questions:

-Do you agree with the writer’s way of choosing always music that was scientifically proven to set a mood(creativity, communication etc.)? Why? Have you ever tried it?

Your Weekly ‘Food For Thought’ question

Did music impact your life? If so, how much and why?