Gamifying Productivity with Music (OP Daily #001)
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You’ve probably noticed background music and music to learn, like this Akira the Don album (YouTube) on Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces, which uses spaced repetition combined with original music production. (I wager that Akira the Don’s retention is off the charts given he creatively composed this album, requiring him to select the most important aspects of Campbell’s work.)
I’ve read various authors and then followed up with musical compositions like this, which to my mind serve a similar purpose to a bookshelf, where, after reading a book, I can simply notice it on the shelf and remember its contents. It’s almost like magic! Maybe it has to do with flow (Fadi and Yu-kai recently discussed on Linkedin).
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Linked content from this snippet:
Akira the Don — Joseph Campbell, full album — “what is this mystery…?” (CD1/7)
Joseph Campbell (wikipedia)
Fadi & Yu-kai discuss Flow & B=MAT(P)
