Career Everyone has all of ‘white noise’ is heard, it is somewhat monotonous ambient noise that helps you in the highest state of concentration to condition. But did you know that this noise have a brother or cousin – has, called ‘brown noise’?
“Microsoft has a time ago conducted a study on the effects of digital media. What turns out? We can have only 8 seconds to concentrate. For comparison: in goldfish is 9 seconds.” That told productiviteitsexpert Tim Christiaens us recently.
less than 8 seconds. I don’t know about you, but I find that really shocking. And a bit sad. One of the main reasons of the lack of focus? Distraction is always lurking. Think of the phone that continually starts ringing, the hum of colleagues, your mailbox stuffed of the new messages. Each piece of stimuli that distract the attention of your tasks.
“most of The people nowadays are ‘breinwerkers’,” said Ulrika Leons, health psychologist and mindfulnesstrainer, here earlier about against the AD. “We are much concerned with the manufacture and processing of information, where a huge appeal is made to our working memory.” In other words: complex tasks where a good concentration is required. “The problem is that our brain too much information, so the attention to crack. It costs time and time again, energy to re-focus.”
White versus brown noise
Unfortunately, there is no magic formula to get your concentration up to boost. The one benefit with music, while someone else can only focus with ‘noise cancelling’headphones.
A little trick that many people to help, is to listen to noise, i.e. noise. “Noise helps you concentrate because it works as a kind of dampening blanket”, as is explained in a YouTube video from SciShow. “Your brain tends to be the smallest change to see in your environment. If it is totally silent, the least or slightest, the alarm bells do go off, so you’re guaranteed to want attention given to that source.” Noise that is external sounds – or the bleeps of your smartphone or chitchat to colleagues – masking, so you can better concentrate.
White noise is the most well-known, but there is also brown noise. In both cases, monotonous, constant, and even ‘boring’ noise, that the noise neutralizes. But the brown noise is simply a bit lower, deeper and softer than the white version. The undersigned is especially a fan of brown noise, but try it themselves.
