I’m with “yes”. I hate background sound I can’t control or prepare for a lot of the time. Anything with words fully ruins my hearing and concentration, particularly if it’s right in that range where I can kinda, but not really, hear it.
For high-concentration tasks, it’s noise-canceling headphones with music I’ve heard so many times before there is nothing that could possibly get my brain interested and I can hit flow state on a task.
I’m with “yes”. I hate background sound I can’t control or prepare for a lot of the time. Anything with words fully ruins my hearing and concentration, particularly if it’s right in that range where I can kinda, but not really, hear it.
For high-concentration tasks, it’s noise-canceling headphones with music I’ve heard so many times before there is nothing that could possibly get my brain interested and I can hit flow state on a task.