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Maybe I am just imaging it, but for me, background music interferes with deep sustained thinking. I don't understand how people think playing music in the backg
by todd8 10y ago
Maybe I am just imaging it, but for me, background music interferes with deep sustained thinking. I don't understand how people think playing music in the background at home or at work does anything positive for intellectual activity.
Open offices have a similar effect on me, and not infrequently I've been exposed to both at the same time.
- SamReidHughes 10y agoA fun fact is that Jon von Neumann felt otherwise. From Wikipedia: Von Neumann did some of his best work in noisy, chaotic environments, and once admonished his wife for preparing a quiet study for him to work in. He never used it, preferring the couple's living room with its television playing loudly.
- todd8 10y agoYeah, but what did he know about intellectual activity! :)
- loco5niner 10y agoDifferent strokes for different folks