maybe it's just the people i talk to, but they all seem to do fine when they put music in the background of their work. reading or writing isn't complete without something else going on in the ears.
frankly, this makes me quite jealous!! i love music!! in fact, i'm always meaning to get into new things!! thing is, i haven't listened to music properly in a good while, because my work involves a lot of reading and research... and for some reason, words (research) on top of more words (lyrics in songs) make everything jumbled up!! it's like when you're writing, and someone is in your ear babbling away, and you don't know whether to listen to THAT or listen to your brain think of what to write next. i'm invested in both. when i pick songs that i'm really drawn to, i find myself invested in the music more.
the easy solution is to not listen to music with words. and it works, i guess. been listening to masayoshi takanaka, and as always, it has been a fun time! but i want to branch out from instrumental stuff every now and then, you know? just a month ago i made the decision to completely abandon spotify in favor of physical media. specifically, i wanted to start my own .mp3 collection!! how fun!! and in the process of moving my stuff to spotify, i figured i'd really, really, REALLY wanted to revisit some albums!!
.. i haven't done that, because of how busy work is making me.. and as much as i'd like to multitask and listen to an album while i work, i find that it's not the best idea to keep my attention span so divided :( the weekends aren't particularly helpful either, since my free time also involves reading. or playing a game. and i get so absorbed in it, that i forget to listen to music... gaahhh!!
(another solution is to listen to foreign music. yes, i've tried. yes, i still get distracted.)
this is such a nothingburger of a struggle. but i'm so jealous of people who can listen to music while they go about their life. i find the times that i can best listen to music is when i am commuting from one place to anotherβbut i rarely go out for work, maybe only once a month, at the very least. i really love music. in the back of my mind, i'd really love to discover new music... there is so much art, but so little time to enjoy them all.
goshhhh. i miss listening to full albums!! and i want to go back to curating that mp3 library, because i've only ever put 2 albums in there!! and i hate spotify so much, i am NOT going back there!! i just find it a struggle to approach music now, with so much going on in my life...
and don't get me started on people who listen to PODCASTS while they work. if i had to do the same, my brain would be bombarded with so much information that it would just shut down... but i guess it really just depends on the person, doesn't it?
oh well.
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