From the course: Productivity Tips: Setting Up Your Workplace

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Use sound to be more productive

Use sound to be more productive

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Use sound to be more productive

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- Each of the five senses have a tremendous impact on your ability to stay productive in your workspace. Sound in particular can pull your attention away or give you more focus, depending on how you have things set up. For instance, you might be distracted by conversations that are taking place around the office, or noises that are happening outside, or even if you have a home work environment, you can be distracted by noises throughout the house. I want to give you three options to consider when it comes to shaping the sound in your work environment. First, let's consider music. In my book, "The Myth of Multitasking," I talk about the difference between switchtasking and background tasking. Switchtasking is when you're trying to perform multiple attention-requiring tasks at the same time, and background tasking is where something mindless or mundane happens in the background. For some, music is background tasking. It's a…

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