The trick to this is to listen to calming, relaxing, non-intrusive music with little or no lyrics, which gently sway you along to a calming rhythm, enabling your mind to think and take in information without frying it to a crisp.

The problem is, I can't stand the deafening silence either, usually because you've got some numb-nuts playing 'library hide-and-seek' and making lots of noise. I'm one of these people who loves to listen to music whilst I work - right now as I write this, I'm listening to 'Panic' by The Smiths (you'll love it), but when I'm revising and studying, I can't deal with the distraction of lyrics because it throws my mind off track.

Non-intrusive background music whilst studying I would like to show you a few they've talked about in the not-so-near-past, because every one of these has transformed how I work.

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