Getting more words in per minute may be efficient, but the trouble with people who talk too fast is that they often say something they haven’t thought of yet.
– Walter H. Gmelch in Coping with Faculty Stress (Survival Skills for Scholars)
Do you need silence to think? Is your office noisier than you want?
While some people with attention deficit disorder prefer or even need some ambient noise when they want to concentrate, others don’t.
Has anyone tried noise-cancelling headphones as an anti-ADD measure? How has it worked? Do you pipe in music (or some other sound that helps), or do you just cancel out the ambient noise? Or has anyone tried the white noise generators?
Illustration, above, copied from NoiseFreeHeadphones.com. This link is not an endorsement — but if we’re borrowing their illustration, the least we can do is give them a shout-out.
