>>5856492People can listen to things when they meditate too. There are tracks made specifically for people that can't meditate in silence.
If you think the music is too distracting for you and is breaking your focus, put something else on. What distracts you is 100% subjective. Some people can tune out more background sounds than others and some people fully embrace the music and let it pump up their energy or focus.
I think what you listen to DOES have an effect on you over-all. But it wholly depends on YOU.
It's a personal preferences thing.
Personally I find silence extremely painful and my ADHD makes me jump between music genres all the time
>>5857024Yeah I don't think there's really much to think about. There's no concrete answer. If anything, one could argue putting on educational podcasts or videos on in the background could be helpful in the long run, but whether someone can multitask learning and drawing focus is still subjective.
Or another topic of discussion could be the languages people listen to. Like listening to music in English, as an English speaker, would distract me a lot more than listening to music in, say, German. This is because my brain is still subconsciously listening to my background music and listening to English words can potentially fuck up my focus. So listening to foreign languages allows me to disregard the actual words or meaning or thinking and allow it to just be background music.
But that's pretty much it. I can't think of anything else, the rest is pretty much just subjective tastes and how your brain functions when it multitasks.
