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I can't even listen to music while I program, let alone an audiobook. So my suggestion is: Just give up. Everyone's mind is different, of course, but I'd hypot
by mechanical_fish 17y ago
I can't even listen to music while I program, let alone an audiobook. So my suggestion is: Just give up.
Everyone's mind is different, of course, but I'd hypothesize that even if you can listen to a book and program "simultaneously", your language centers are probably doing a lot of task switching, thereby impairing your creativity. You might find that if you just focus on the programming you will ship faster, thus leaving you time in the day to enjoy your audiobook while running on the treadmill. Win-win-win.
- gojomo 17y agoI can listen to music -- but it has to have a low novelty factor. Old favorites I've heard many, many times before or some highly-repetitive electronic music can be comforting without being distracting.
- loso 17y agoI can listen to music but it can't have any lyrics that I can concentrate on. It has to be electronic or jazz, something that puts me in a certain mood but I can still kep my concentration intact.