It must have been five years ago now that I read a statistic stating listening to Beethoven while studying is conducive to concentration and retention of information. God knows, I have no idea where I came across this stuff. I suppose I could Google it now and find something similar. Of course, I believe everything I find when I am surfing the web. I tried it out back then and to tell the truth it seems to work. Lately, I've been having a hard time staying seated at my desk, getting bills paid, getting stories edited, getting things even written for that matter. I want to do these things. I feel better when the bills are paid and stories are churning out of me. I just have no patience to sit and DO those things. Until this weekend.
This weekend I put on Pandora Radio a Beethoven channel. About the time I feel I "should" be sitting down to get things done I pull up Pandora, click on the Beethoven channel and within a few minutes I feel myself drawn to sit down and start typing - typing all sorts of stuff, for god's sake. This has been going for now for three or four days and I'm having a hard time leaving the desk. This is insane!
Turn off the radio!! Turn off the radio!!
:D
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If I listened to Beethoven, I'd write just to keep my mind on something other than classical music. I'm a rocker, yanno :-)
ReplyDeleteBeethoven rocks...that's where it comes from. And Strauss was a naughty minx, truly. Music is just as open about it then as it is now *giggle*.
ReplyDeleteAs a major Beethoven fan, if I pay too much attention to the music I start bangin' my head - the 7th Symphony is basically Slayer for the early 19th century...
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll try that. It seems when I start doing anything there are unknown tunes playing in my head. That is not always good. Maybe B would fix my brain.
ReplyDeleteI have ALWAYS studied with classical music in the background. Gotta watch the crazies from that era but otherwise it certainly helps me with my concentration.
ReplyDeleteStrangely enough I listen to old instrumental Jazz when I'm trying to focus on good food/wine and friends...
Life has a soundtrack. You confirm this to me once again.
Love,
Bobby