Lightly Distracted

I just realized I work better when lightly distracted.

Lightly can mean listening to music, talking to someone, chat online...

It appears there are two parts of the mind clearly differentiated here. There is the automatic one in charge of everything of no conscious mental effort, and the one that handle the mental load-bearing. When load-bearing is required, it is possible the load-bearing to be considered rather great and shocking, tripping my decision track back to automatic, which sometimes leads to procrastination and overtime.

Out of all, I think chatting to someone online is the best for focusing mental effort and stimulating thinking. Talking physically is always more than just talking - there is both verbal and non-verbal communication. I also don't seem to have as much dedicated hardware to socializing behavior, so it actually takes more energy than I have for other things.

Listening to classical music takes less mental energy than rock, pop and other trendy musics. I wonder why?

Blogging takes very little of my energy, so I try to get it done very quickly. Back to coding prototype twitter classification systems.......