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First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.
I cannot concentrate with music playing.
Literally anything else? Like a truck crashing through the window or someone literally trying to engage me? Zero lost focus, to the extent I was initially diagnosed with a hearing disorder.
Not that that helps get stuff done…
I'm with "yes". I hate background sound I can't control or prepare for a lot of the time. Anything with words fully ruins my hearing and concentration, particularly if it's right in that range where I can kinda, but not really, hear it.
For high-concentration tasks, it's noise-canceling headphones with music I've heard so many times before there is nothing that could possibly get my brain interested and I can hit flow state on a task.
Where do I stand if, (regardless of my choice in the track or ability to affect said audio emenations) that background noise more or less just scene dressing for the "going insane" bit that's rolling ahead with or without it?
Mostly 2. I tend to keep my heaphones on with nothing playing on them just to muffle some sounds. Unfortunately it somehow enhances some frequencies. I think it blocks low frequency sound, but that makes higher frequency sound stand out more or smth. It's weird ngl.
sometimes when I feel really agitated I remember to try turning off the music/podcast and go "ooooh so that was it" even though 2 hours ago I absolutely needed that music/podcast to not lose the entirety of my shit
Yes.
Hey, that's me! When I go to the water park, I accept their music, when I go camping, I wanna take an axe to the RV of anyone with a speaker outside. I have one but I keep it low enough that I have to be within 10 ft to even hear it, 5 ft to understand it.
I like music. In silence there is almost always something else, far more distracting. A faint conversation my brain wants to listen to, music, just background noise.
I also tried noise generators at some point, but that was weird. White noise is annoying as fuck. Brown noise was better, but it made me sweat a lot when I kept it on, and just added some stress.
The second one but my wife is the first one…
Mostly the former, but occasionally the latter if I can’t control the latter noise.
I should get that diagnosis.