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rcjordan

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How listening to music 'significantly impairs' creativity
« on: February 27, 2019, 03:57:16 PM »
ScienceDaily:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190227081542.htm

You know it's true, but you prefer denial. hhh
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Re: How listening to music 'significantly impairs' creativity
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2019, 05:23:12 PM »
I am glad they studied different types of music, but I am surprised that they didn't get differing results. 
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Re: How listening to music 'significantly impairs' creativity
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2019, 08:45:38 PM »
Passed to Lucy who is doing Art with headphones on :)
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Re: How listening to music 'significantly impairs' creativity
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2019, 09:51:41 PM »
I have to be really careful about combining music with work. I've never been able to listen to music while working at anything very cerebral. I end up too focused on the music instead of the thing I should be doing.

Many moons ago I was at a hockey game with my husband, and at the moment of the game-changing goal, the thing I was noticing most was, "Wow, cool, the organist used a flat sixth chord for that sequence. That really works!"
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Re: How listening to music 'significantly impairs' creativity
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2019, 05:05:27 AM »
I find it easier to listen to and tune out talk radio than music. That said, I find the best background for focused work, whether creative or just thorny technical problems (which often require a lot of creative, lateral thinking) is *always* silence.
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Re: How listening to music 'significantly impairs' creativity
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2019, 03:56:41 PM »
FTFY: *always* silence while driving open highways.

Long solo road trips are the best!  I took the radio out of my Sprinter van and could do the same for all my vehicles except I like the clock.
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