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by johnchristopher 3990 days ago
Are these loops ? They are quite short, not a good thing as the brain tends to focus on the loop timing.

edit: I may try it out in the evening when reading a fiction book though.

My 2ç:

I don't understand how one can concentrate in the noise, pardon me, ambiance of a café with people chatting, glasses and cutlery jingle belling and chairs creaking.

On a physical level, these sounds are distracting by themselves.

On a social level, these sounds remind us that we are in a place where it's okay to relax and engage in typical homo sapiens activities such as : gossiping with friends, hitting on each other and having a good time. I believe it's not a good thing to mix those signals (eg: invoking a cool ambiance to work. Work is hard, it's supposed to be harder than relaxing. Both aren't opposite though.).

I said that as someone suffering from tinnitus and regularly using white noise to fall asleep and getting literally enraged by cpu fan whistling noise.

I used to listen to music to motivate myself (laundry, etc.) but then I found out I was way more effective working )and getting in the zone) in silence without using audio crutches.

I still use music when running though but not for the whole run.

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My theory is in a noisy office, the noise is "distracting" because there is a higher chance of noise being relevant/important to you, but in a cafe-situation the noise is "anonymous" and you don't need to critically filter it.

I too also have adopted silence as the standard working environment. I don't play music in the car while driving anymore as well. The only time I play music is when I want to exclusively listen to music.