The struggles of working with music
I don’t know about anyone else but I struggle to work and revise when I have music on. Well, not all music. If it has words then I can rarely concentrate however if it is wordless I tend to fair much better but even that varies. So if music causes me to struggle to concentrate then surely I should just not have any music on. However if the room is silent I will focus on every tiny sound and every tiny detail. At uni we have a silent working room which thankfully isn't truly silent. The rustling pages and scribbling pens are quiet enough to not distract but loud enough to make a nice background noise. When I am at my flat however there can be moments of absolute silence. My ears search out for every creak of a pipe or cawing of a bird. So I don’t need silence but I do need something! To prove a point I put on some music in the background as I was writing this and all I could focus on was the lyrics. I typed the first word of this sentence and my internal monologue went ...