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If there is one thing that has allowed me to be successful as an online service provider, it is this: I always deliver my work on time.
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It can be hard not to overhear certain exciting conversations, for instance—I’ve witnessed a fair few job interviews and even a couple of breakups in my time!
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There’s another reason that some people claim coffee shops work so well for productivity. That is the fact that they provide the perfect kind of background hum. When you are working in a coffee shop, you’ll notice that the people around you are chattering in a way that isn’t quite discernible. You can hear “hubbub,” but you can’t make out the precise things people are saying.
This is the ideal type of noise because it eventually becomes “white noise.” The brain eventually recognizes that there is no important information here and thus you become desensitized to the sound. This works in just the same way that you might tune out the sound of a ticking clock after a while, only you still have that slight relaxing background hum.
So popular is this sound, in fact, that you can actually find coffee shop chatter tracks online to listen to. One good one can be found at https://coffitivity.com. Other people like the sound of rain, in which case you can try www.rainymood.com.
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Incidentally, this is also where the “doorway effect” comes from—that tendency to enter a room to get something and immediately forget what you went in for!
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Note by the way that little tricks like this can increase your salary by a greater degree than you would ever be likely to encounter in traditional employment! The same goes for negotiating a seemingly tiny increase in your rates per word or per line of code.
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Sinicki, A. (2019). Delivering Great Work. In: Thriving in the Gig Economy. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4090-8_5
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