98. Does Music Help You Study?
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How Do I Balance Music and Concentration?
When I'm doing kind of life admin or email, you know, easy emails or filing. Or possibly if I'm quite tired,. I need a bit of a kind of a boost, a shot in the arm, so to speak. So something very repetitive, minimalistic, very low distraction classical pieces such as Philip Glass and John Adams. And then finally, at the kind of extreme end, when testing myself on flashcards, doing practice tests, or trying to figure out most complex maths problems - that really takes a lot of mental bandwidth -- I might go for complete silence. Some researchers have even suggested personality may have a role in determining the impact of music on your study effectiveness.
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