Reach for the remote and hone your concentration skills: Lowering the TV volume a little more each day can teach you to filter out background noise and improve focus, says University of California, San Francisco neuroscientist Michael Merzenich, PhD. Your training at home could even pay off at work by helping you block out the loudmouth in the next cubicle or fully concentrate on a meeting while ignoring noisy distractions outside.
TV-Brain Workout
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Or get about 25 birds in the house … (normally you will turn the volume from the tv up though …) ..
I’m one of those who can loose touch with surroundings quite simply so no need for training in this area for me .. I sometimes needed to boost the opposite a bit ..
Yeh this works. It’s similar to a technique your taught when you learn to trade on the floor at the London stock exchange. It helps you channel all external stimuli during the chaos.
Ha! Tell that to the mumbler I married who calls me a deefo while nudging the volume up higher because he likes to “test the speaker balance”. I’ll forward the link to him, see what he says.
That is quite interesting.
However, i come from a house where the TV was always on quite loudly (my dear mother has tinitus), whereas my other half’s parents always have the TV on very quietly.
I can block out background noise effortlessly, whereas he has a lot of difficulty with doing the same.
Funny, eh?