Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to talk a little bit about how music has really changed my ability to deal with stressful situations at work!

Music Work and Stress

One of the things that I've come to understand of myself lately, is when I'm in an intense situation, such as at work, I tend to prefer a particular style of music.

With the recent stresses and complications that have gone on at work lately, what I've been doing is trying to find different ways to concentrate and focus more intensely on the things that I'm doing since it requires quite a bit of mental capacity. I like the work for sure in many regards, but damn is it stressful lol. I also am trying to do all of this without relying on the crutch that gets floated in our faces that is allopathic medicine. There is no way in hell I am going to pay someone to give me something to work every day. That is counterintuitive to the millionth degree!

One of the things that I've enjoyed doing in the past few years while I'm working, since I've been working from home, is listen to podcasts and radio talk shows in the morning and throughout the day while I'm working. It provides me some background and alternative things to think and interact with while I'm trying to get my work done and provides a little bit of mental clarity in some form I suppose. That works pretty well as long as I'm doing normal work but when I have to really get my nose to the ground and concentrate on what I'm doing, this isn't something that's possible at all lol.

I've also noticed that when I'm in these moods or needs of intense work, the type of music that I listen to gets adjusted. In an intense bout of work where I need to really pay attention to what I'm doing, I have been leaning more towards electronic music like EDM or the more intense songs because of the various beats that they have in the songs. That was an interesting thought I recently realized, because I had on some alternative rock music and it wasn't working well for my mental needs because the lyrics were distracting me from what I was trying to pay attention and focus on which I found quite interesting lol.

I find it interesting but not surprising that this was the case, from reading and listening to various stories of the way that people like doctors prefer to listen to very specific things when doing surgery. I know that my work isn't on that level but when you need to get down to the seriousness of a task at work and can't mess around, you want to do whatever you can to be able to drive your attention to the specific task that you're undertaking. This is where the music choice I've got comes in and works out.

With listening to something like Rock music, country, rap and some others I tend to listen to the lyrics more than I should be, so I split my attention away from my work and put it onto the words if I like a song or something. With electronic music like EDM, artists like Skrillex, Deadmau5 and many others they are able to put beats together that I can listen to that hype me up for what I'm doing. Other times I like to listen to more mellow electronic music but lately that hasn't been the case as I've had quite a bit of stress, so hype music it is lol.

What are you listening to while you work? Do you prefer silence over music?

^-CmplXty. _{Real human written content, never AI.}

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