In 1997, a book by Don Campbell, The Mozart Effect, presented the theory that listening to Mozart may temporarily increase your IQ and enhance your creativity. If there were lyrics (such as rock or pop), I’d want to sing along. I also knew intuitively that I could study only with instrumental music. I knew intuitively that I studied better with what my mother would have called ‘noise’ - although I didn’t really understand why. I’d select a record (no CDs or streaming in those prehistoric days), plop on the headphones and study with soothing instrumental music - usually harp or gentle piano - playing in the background. Which I did.Įventually, I started hanging out in the recording library. If you dropped a pencil or book, the death glare of other students was enough to cause you to leave. Seating about 60 people, this carefully insulated prison room allowed patrons to make no noise whatsoever. Years later, perhaps it was my mother’s influence that caused me to try studying in the “silent” room of my campus library at university. This edict made me even less happy than the one about TV. In the days of those ugly black and white, cathode-tube TVs, she used to remove the tube and hide it in her bedroom, telling us the TV was “broken.” She also didn’t let us listen to music while we were doing our homework. When I was a child, my mother strictly limited our television viewing. Do you find music helps you to write or are the sounds of silence more golden to your ears? Here’s what science has to say about background music while writing….
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