I'm curious. How many of you listen to music as a single-tasking
activity? Or at least, the primary foreground activity? And what
differentiates that from other modes of listening to music?
Udhay
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On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I'm curious. How many of you listen to music as a single-tasking
activity? Or at least, the primary foreground activity? And what
differentiates that from other modes of listening to music?
Udhay
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((Udhay Shankar N))
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I'm curious. How many of you listen to music as a single-tasking
activity? Or at least, the primary foreground activity? And what
differentiates that from other modes of listening to music?
Me. And listening to music as
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I'm curious. How many of you listen to music as a single-tasking
activity? Or at least, the primary foreground activity? And what
differentiates that from other modes of listening to music?
That's my primary way of
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Deepak Misra yahoogro...@deepakmisra.comwrote:
Would sipping a drink while listening to the music be considered as multi-
tasking ??
Well, if it was a blended whiskey it would be mult-casking.
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I'm curious. How many of you listen to music as a single-tasking
activity? Or at least, the primary foreground activity? And what
differentiates that from other modes of listening to music?
Udhay
I often listen to a lot
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I'm curious. How many of you listen to music as a single-tasking
activity? Or at least, the primary foreground activity? And what
differentiates that from other modes of listening to music?
Nowadays pretty much the only
I tried listening to music while I work, but I was unable to concentrate.
However, it's easier for me to focus on the music while driving.
I also listen to music while I jog- it takes away the tedium and I have no
problem listening to the music.
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Udhay Shankar N
I mostly listen to classical western music and vocal carnatic music in this
mode - and I think it's because this music is more demanding from me as a
listener. It refuses to stay in the background of any other activity
(reading, cooking, driving, dancing etc) unlike the old hindi film songs
and
On 7 October 2010 17:48, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I'm curious. How many of you listen to music as a single-tasking
activity? Or at least, the primary foreground activity? And what
differentiates that from other modes of listening to music?
Me.
I find listening to music when
Charles Haynes [07/10/10 23:26 +1100]:
That's my primary way of listening to music. I almost never listen to
music while doing something else, I find it interferes with my
concentration.
The same with me. I cant treat music I like as useful background noise when
I get on with other work, and I
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:19 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
That means your child who is in
2nd grade today will be attempting to choose a career with no significant
change in system despite that fact that times are changing.
Times have changed. Already.
My kid here in India has
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On 07-Oct-10 5:56 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
That's my primary way of listening to music. I almost never listen to
music while doing something else, I find it interferes with my
concentration.
Does that mean that you
On Thursday 07 Oct 2010 8:49:01 pm Mahesh Murthy wrote:
Perhaps it's also time to get off the engineering and medical fixation.
That is so 1960s/1970s/1980s. All of us perhaps came from that background.
I posit that very few of our children (and perhaps we can do a quick
audit) are
On Thursday 07 Oct 2010 8:49:01 pm Mahesh Murthy wrote:
I really don't know which particular time-space continuum you reside in but
in the one that seems to be surrounding most everyone in this country, a
lot of change has happened,
You dont really need this to buttress your argument
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote:
Mostly though (and this is where it starts to sound a little woo
woo) I like to practice single-tasking as a form of mindfulness. I
like to try to do one thing at a time, and do just that one thing
while I'm doing
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com
wrote:
like to try to do one thing at a time, and do just that one thing
while I'm doing it.
I cannot multitask. ... I generally cannot chat with
I have a problem listening to something with lyrics when I work, i.e.
something which requires thought. If it is cleaning the house, there
HAS to be music.
If it just instrumental, I can do work (thought-stuff) while it goes
on in the background.
But serious listening is different -- it becomes a
On 08-Oct-10 9:46 AM, Sruthi Krishnan wrote:
But serious listening is different -- it becomes a task in itself (of
course, a very pleasurable one).
Indeed. I'd also claim that single-task listening to music and
background or multitask listening to the very same piece of music are
qualitatively
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