What do you listen to while you work?

It depends on the situation. Am I doing something that requires my brain to be active and thinking through things, or am I doing something mindless?

If I’m trying to actively think and process, I don’t usually listen to anything. If I need to tune out the background noise I’ll try wearing my earbuds and activate the noise cancelling feature. Admittedly, there was a period at work where I had built a playlist of Japanese music because I could trick my brain into not focusing on the lyrics since I can’t understand them, they’re just extra sound.

Doing mindless activities like driving on the interstate (I’m a lot more focused in town, promise) working out, or playing some kind of video game where I need to do some grinding for materials I’ll put on music and keep the volume low. Cooking and cleaning kind of fall in this category, too, now that I think about it.