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Listening To Music May Be Damaging Your Creativity (newatlas.com)
The results of a new study suggest that listening to music can significantly impair your ability to perform creative tasks. Whilst music was found to disrupt creative processes, ambient "library noise" was found to have no significant effect. From a report: The first experiment saw volunteers complete tasks while being played music with vocals that wouldn't mean anything to them -- for example, English-speaking listeners being played music with Spanish lyrics. In the second experiment, the participants were played instrumental music with no vocals, and in the third the volunteers were played music with familiar lyrics that they could understand. During the third experiment, the participants were also subjected to "library noise" conditions, which involved ambient noise such as unintelligible distant speech, photocopier noise, typing, and the rustling of papers.
The team discovered that creative performance dropped significantly when listening to music over the course of all three exercises, as compared to periods during which participants were allowed to complete the exercises without distraction. Even when participants declared that the music improved their overall mood, in the third exercise, it still impaired creativity.
The team discovered that creative performance dropped significantly when listening to music over the course of all three exercises, as compared to periods during which participants were allowed to complete the exercises without distraction. Even when participants declared that the music improved their overall mood, in the third exercise, it still impaired creativity.
I'm listening to rap, not music.
Have gnu, will travel.
Listen to music from the 1980's or 1970's. When artists were actually involved instead of just formulas. When there was no autotune so you actually had singers...
... and those kids should get off your lawn, amirite?
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Fool! Everyone knows that an open plan office is the absolutely best for work productivity and creativity!
The mere fact that you're having to use music (which distracts you), to block out all the even MORE distracting noise.. is just you not being a team player. After all, walls and offices and space costs, you know.
And how dare you not want dogs to constantly visit you, bark, make noise, and generally add to the overall distraction! Clearly, if you don't want dogs around every second of every day, you must *hate* them.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Really!
To be honest, this headline was all I needed to justify banning headphones and music in my newly remodeled open office floorplan. I didn't even need to read the article. Of course, being that I'm a typical C-level executive, I have my own office and no distractions. My employees are just entitled millennials who need to get back to work and quit their bitching. /s
Listen to music from the 1980's or 1970's. When artists were actually involved instead of just formulas. When there was no autotune so you actually had singers...
... and those kids should get off your lawn, amirite?
Yes ... yes they should :)