Stop Listening to Music, It Will Change Your Life

Mil Hoornaert
Story Saturday
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5 min readNov 23, 2023

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A man listening to music
A man listening to music ~ Generated with AI by the author

I stopped listening to music.

A few months ago, I stopped listening to music. In this blog post, I will explain why, what happened, and if you should do it or not. When I say I stopped listening to music, I mean that I don’t play music for myself anymore. When I am somewhere and there is music playing, there’s not much you can do about that. I did have Spotify Premium, but now I don’t use it anymore. Only occasionally, I listen to a podcast on Spotify, but most podcasts I listen to are on YouTube. I also used an iPod Shuffle for a couple of weeks as a bit of a switching period, but after that, I just stopped using it. The iPod could, however, be a great alternative to not listening to music.

Why?

There were multiple reasons for stopping, so let’s cover them all.

Mental health: One of the first reasons is mental health. Most music these days is very degenerate and bad for your mental health. You can keep saying that it won’t affect you, but the truth is that it does affect your subconscious brain. Listening to modern songs gives you fake desires and really messes up your mental health.

Sleep quality: I actually only thought about this afterward, but not listening to…

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Mil Hoornaert
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