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 music really helps you sleep better. Maybe you have had days where you tried to sleep, but a song was really in your head keeping you awake and thinking about things. Well, not listening to music, no songs in your head.

Focus/flow state: In order to really do great work, you have to get into a ‘flow state’ (I will most likely make a separate post about the flow state). Working really focused or in a flow state means that there are no thoughts in your mind while you are working. Listening to music makes it impossible to work in a flow state. Even during workouts, I didn’t listen to music because you also need to get into a flow state for workouts.

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