Productivity Hack: Music

Here's a crazy productivity hack for you:

When you are working, listen to music that you used to play video games to as a kid.

You will automatically be immersed in the work to the nth degree. For me, this is a few select video games such as Halo, Age of Empires, and Runescape soundtracks.

I have boosted my focus ten fold by simply listening while doing work.

Here's the playlist:

Age of Empires 2:

Halo: Combat Evolved:

This soundtrack in particular backed many hundreds of hours of grinding - therefore it goes without saying that I have an affinity to focus while listening

Runescape:

I'm not the only one espousing this:

And here

Pick music that has no lyrics, has pace, and that doesn't distract from the task at hand.

See what happens...