It's exam week. The students hustle about trying to organize themselves, they fight to reserve their preferred studying areas as the library fills up, and there is a struggle to find the key ingredient to their endeavors: focus. In today's world, focus is hard to come by. We hold the distractions of communication through a constantly expanding social network. Through these times I have found that some people drink caffeine to stay awake while other use a chemical focus to get them through. My focus, although it does comprise of those two things at times, is not crucially set upon them. As I sit here and compare my studying habits to theirs, I find myself seeing that I am most focused when I am listening to music. Some people prefer to study without music playing, but my belief is that they can not study with music because they are listening to the wrong kind. I prefer to listen to classical music, or softer, slower set instrumental music. There is a playlist on the website 8tracks.com that is called "The Ultimate Study Mix." It is comprised of mainly piano pieces of a slow, soft melody and some electronic music fused with classical genre music to keep a certain "pace" to my mind.
The chemical focus of caffeine or other substances only allows me to reach my flow, but I feel that music helps me to use it.
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