Try songs in another language - one you don’t speak. The idea is that since you don’t understand the words, your brain doesn’t go “Oh hey, someone is talking to me” and thus you can maintain your focus. Although, this is something probably best suited to writing. But on the other hand, if it works, it works.
Personally, I like Opera. BUT, I advise against using Pandora’s Opera Station. At least in the free version, it either cycles through the same ten Singers/Albums or drifts off into instrumental covers.
On the other hand, it’s great for background noise when gaming. Just be sure you have an ad blocker running. You will also have to confirm that you are listening every hour or so.
It takes me all day to do simple chores because i keep getting distracted. If i put in earbuds with upbeat music I’m done with everything in a couple hours AND i feel really good and probably danced a little i.e. exercised.
really wish I could’ve done this when I was spending 4 hours on every page of math homework in the 90′s. Fast forward to my last year of college when I finally figured out I could just listen to Blackmill and blaze through an entire semester of college math like it was nothing.
Find the study methods that work for you!!! Help kids find the study methods that work for them!
Y'all I just listen to Lana Del Rey. Would recommend because with instrumentals I tend to focus on where actual words would be but with Lana’s stuff her vocals sound like music but it’s words
Go for it! From what I’ve seen, everyone has a different genre but instrumental (no words) seems to be key. I guess Sweet Dreams words are so ethereal, ADHD just rolls with it????
For me, orchestral covers of songs I know work best since my ADHD is using the extra hyperfocus to remember and keep up with words. Have fun experimenting!!
I use orchestra covers of video game music and the LOTR soundtrack
I also find jazz, city pop, and vaporwave work well for this purpose too. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons also got me through many a college paper back in the day.
I use Pokemon music or Youtube readings of reddit stories to do my work.
rethinking about Doc Oc’s villainy reveal in Spiderverse again
it wasn’t just the fact that she was gender-swapped that made her reveal so surprising, but her whole vibe made her villainy reveal so much more shocking because the combination of her wrinkles, her crows feet, her soft smile, her wacky hair, her huge nerdy glasses, and her general appearance as a punk Ms Frizzle remix, it was all the more extraordinary that this well established spiderveser villain didn’t immediately look like a villain, and yet when she revealed her identity it was so obvious, completely subverting our standards for what ‘villainy’ is, so when the tentacles came out of this kind-looking lesbotic sex symbol, we all just went
they got us. the art and design team played us like a violin in a Niccolò Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor and we ain’t even mad
Doc Ock’s reveal was the best villain reveal ever since Toy Story 2′s Stinky Pete
I also love the strong implication (though never outright stated) that Doc Ock and Aunt May have some kind of history together, just like so many good villains in a rogues gallery have some kind of tie to their nemesis.
Peter: “Let me guess, your friends call you Doc Ock?”
Doc Ock: “My friends call me Liv. My enemies call me Doc Ock.”
Later, when Doc Ock smashes through the door of the Parker house:
May: “Oh, great. It’s Liv.”
I loved the shit out of that because it’s revealed in the basement lair that May is a genius engineer herself and helped RIPeter design his gear, including the suits and the webshooters.
They were probably colleagues, you guys.
Oh my god, they were colleagues.
They were absolutely more than colleagues– maybe they started out as colleagues, or maybe May learned a lot of those engineering skills from Liv– but they were ultimately lovers. Doc Ock and Aunt May have a romantic history in the comics (they almost got married), and that moment in the film was undoubtedly a nod to that romantic history.
