Music and Productivity

Can music really increase focus and in turn productivity? While working on web development or concentrating on that project with a quickly approaching deadline, you could be listening to music from Focus at Will. It is a new streaming music service that can more than triple a listener's attention span while studying or working under deadlines. But it's no ordinary collection of tracks. Each composition is designed to keep the brain engaged past the point of around 20 minutes, when people's minds begin to wander. You might be wondering what it is that makes your mind wander. It is the limbic system that constantly wants to interrupt you because it is looking for food or danger. By playing music that soothes this part of the brain, people can focus on a task for as long as 100 minutes, according to Henshall's research, conducted by Bowker market research and the psychology department at the University of California at Los Angeles.