Concentration is difficult to gain, and even more difficult to maintain.
Music can help us a lot maintaining concentration at work and home, so I decided to create two playlists to share with you.
To get the best out of these playlists, I strongly advise the use of headphones. Other than the sound quality improvements that you get by using headphones, you’ll also create a sort of isolation from the external world, and your coworkers will think twice before interrupting you if you see you wearing headphones.
The first playlist is a collection of pure concentration music, and the second one is a collection of trance music. I will likely add more titles to each playlist in the future, so make sure you add them to your favorites.
Concentration Music
This playlist is ideal both for working on difficult tasks, and also to study difficult topics. Its total length is one hours, which is usually enough for me. I tried to include more energetic music than relaxing music, as my goal is to stimulate the brain to improve learning abilities rather than feeling more relaxed.
- Concentration Music Playlist [youtube videos]
Trance music
This playlist is ideal for speeding up your productivity. These songs provide great concentration but at at the same time they are way faster and more energetic than the first playlist, that’s why they’re not ideal for solving complex problems that require maximum concentration.
- Trance Music Productivity Playlist [youtube videos]
Conclusion
I hope you enjoy these playlists, and that you can use them to increase your productivity at work and at home. I say again that I’ll add more videos to both the playlists, so come back often to check what’s new if you are interested.
If you know of any song that you would like to see in one of these playlists, feel free to leave a comment and I’ll check them out.
Posted on January 25 2010
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I’ve never tried Trance music but I do enjoy Classical if I catch it on the radio from time to time. If I listen to my regular music, I find it hard to concentrate as I start thinking about the lyrics, the meaning, and so on.
I’ll take a look at your suggestions (youtube is blocked at work :( ) and try to come up with something that’s fun to listen to but doesn’t cripple my concentration.
Thanks for the idea!
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The first playlist should be what you are looking for. It’s not classical music, it just “concentration” music. Hope it’ll be useful for you.
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Ha! I love trance! What a great way to start my day!!
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In north europe, especially amsterdam, there are a lot of clubs with techno and trance music. I won a trip to anywhere in europe so I’ll go in one or two of them soon :D
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Great playlists! All my rock stuff is not so great to do work :D
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It’s not if you spend more time listening to the music, but I’m sure you can find something that works well as a background!
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For concentration i like almost anything by Buddha Bar but particularly the cillout in parris collection. It is energetic enough to keep me alert but subtle enough that it does not intrude on my thought proses.
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Hey Quinn, thanks for the contribution, I’ll check out more concentration music by him.
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Good one Oscar,
Also, if you’re into Latin music or dancing, may I recommend bachata music. It’s the south-american blues. Very smooth and it helps me focus.
Eduard
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Great, I’ll check it out!
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Dear Oscar, I am following your blog for a while now. But I am missing some updates. What happened to you 10.000 EUR/month challenge??? I hope you did not quit!
Cheers
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Hey Marc, no, absolutely. I missed the december update but I’m ready with the next one for the next week :)
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Great post and interesting cos I was thinking of the power of music as in how powerful it cld be if utilized properly like you have highlighted ..Thanks for sharing
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I’m glad you found it useful :) I hope to add even more tracks in the next days or weeks.
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Hey, Oscar, nice. I will check them out soon. I like your way of blogging, easy and simple. Since I found your blog, my brain keeps comparing it with zenhabits, because of format maybe. BUt, I think yours is even better. You just need some publicity and you’ll go high up there!
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Hey Jaky, thanks for your kind words, I really appreciate your feedback. Right now I want to focus on content and also do some more guest posts. I hope that’ll make me some publicity :)
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Oscar, cool stuff.
Definitely prefer the trance when I’m completing tasks that require little thinking and more doing. I love music so thanks for sharing this:)
Mike
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Hey Michael, glad you liked the trance playlist!
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Hey! Thanks so much for sharing those playlists! I love music so much, but it is hard to find music that makes it so i can concentrate at work. I am gonna try some of these out! Thanks so much. :)
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Hey Chris, I hope you’ll find them useful. Thanks for your comment.
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