Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of The Emmer Gun Show. I'm your host, Emigone

and in this mini show as part of Christmas podding in the December Dailyes, this is where I'm

publishing an episode every day in December 2019. I'm going to talk about music to help you concentrate now,

bear with. On this podcast before, we've talked about music to work out to, and there's no doubt

a good soundtrack can help a workout, can help a workout along a bit. But when we're also time poor,

there are alerts everywhere and our retention spans are getting shorter and shorter

and it's so easy to get distracted. It does actually help I've found very much this year to have a

soundtrack for when you want to get into a zone where you need to really focus for more than a few

minutes. I read a lot of books for research for this podcast and I was finding the task of having to read a book

quite overwhelming. I wasn't even reading for pleasure because I found that overwhelming too.

And then adding on top of that books that I had to read just ended up with me not feeling prepared

because I just didn't have the time. Well, the truth is I did have the time. I just didn't have the

attention. I knew something had to give

because I wanted to do my research well and so I tried this out and thankfully it really really worked

because it was becoming that thing of actually trying to sit down and focus was becoming something

that I was struggling with more and more and more and actually it was then causing me an added layer

of stress

and frustration. So what makes a real difference for me is to have a soundtrack. And what I do is

set a timer on my phone or my watch for 30 minutes or an hour and I put on my big can

headphones. So not earbuds, but big over-ear headphones. And I play quite quietly various music.

I started off with the app binaural beats, which plays a rain effect, but also has delta, theta, alpha, beta and gamma sounds.

Now, you're going to be like, uh-huh, well, so in order to just keep it really clear,

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