Hack #27: Play Mind Music

You can condition yourself to use your favorite music as a creative trigger, as well as a filter for environmental noise, and if you put it on your iPod or MP3 CD player, you'll always have it at hand.

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Discussion

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Links

• MentatMusic
• Ambient Music Manifesto (Brian Eno): http://www.ele-mental.org/ele_ment/said&did/eno_ambient.html
• "Good Thinking Music" pages on the original wiki: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GoodThinkingMusic and http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GoodThinkingMusicTestimonials
• "Keyboard Practice" by JohnMcDaid?, is a Nebula-nominated science fiction short story inspired partly by Glenn Gould's performance of the Goldberg Variations.

Errata

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Hack Author

Ron Hale-Evans

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This is a page for a hack from the book MindPerformanceHacks by Ron Hale-Evans.