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> Music that is predictable is boring. Or music you've listened to a lot and have learned to predict. You just haven't learned to pay proper attention. I can l
by vinceguidry 11y ago
> Music that is predictable is boring. Or music you've listened to a lot and have learned to predict.
You just haven't learned to pay proper attention. I can listen to the same piece of music over and over and over again and not get bored. I stop usually not because I'm bored of it, but because I've had my fill of that kind of experience at that time. I might return to listening to that piece later. The piece falls into a 'rut' in my head and becomes a platform on which I can have all kinds of related thoughts and experiences.
When I'm of a mind to do so, I might listen to a particular piece of music hundreds of times over the course of a week or two.
Here is an article that describes a similar kind of practice:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/09/centireading-force-reading-book-100-times-great-idea http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/09/centireading-fo...
Just because you can predict what's happening next doesn't make it boring. You just chose to make it boring.
- quaristice 11y agoThis comment is outrageously pretentious and I respectfully disagree with your ridiculous conclusion.
- vinceguidry 11y agoHard to accept that you're being respectful when you're calling me pretentious. Would you mind explaining exactly what you're disagreeing with and why?
- ENTP 11y agoI too have this experience and have 2 albums I listen to daily that I find helps me concentrate.
- pizza 11y agoYou can make something that has previously been salient become yet more salient by noticing more in it; the two of you are not necessarily disagreeing.