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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.
Distractions are distracting and cause one to lose focus. The more distracting, the more you are distracted from the distractions.
Unfortunately, distractions that distract you from other distractions only further distract you.
Now back to my Ted Nugent....
I'm listening to rap, not music.
Have gnu, will travel.
That of the open plan office: People walking about, doors slamming every now and then, phones ringing and a constant buzz of people yakking. We should definitely test how this improves your concentration, since management thinks it must be the best kind of environment.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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!