When I was in high school I taught myself the physics necessary to take the AP physics exam. I did this by taking a physics textbook and doing all of the problems which had solutions in the back of the book. At the time I was doing this, I had just discovered Dire Straits “Brothers in Arms” album and that is ALL that I listened to when I was working on these problems. When I went off to college, I was sitting in my dorm room one day when I put on the Dire Straits and all of the sudden I notice I had this amazing urge to do physics problems. I had trained myself to do physics whenever I heard that one CD. It was as if Pavlov’s dogs had suddenly learned to do physics.
\nSo now I actually use this technique to get work done. I play a single album or a single song over and over again when I’m working on a particular subject. Then, if I ever have a problem getting working on that particular topic, I pull out the appropriate song and whamo, I can’t help myself from getting work done.
\nHere is this month’s song for conditioning myself to get work done:
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\nPlacebo: “Protect me from what I want”<\/p>\n
\nIt’s that disease of the age
\nIt’s that disease that we crave
\nAlone at the end of the rave
\nWe catch the last bus home
\nCorporate America wakes
\nCoffee republic and cakes
\nWe open the latch on the gate
\nOf the hole that we call our home
\nProtect me from what I want…
\nProtect me protect me
\nMaybe we’re victims of fate
\nRemember when we’d celebrate
\nWe’d drink and get high until late
\nAnd now we’re alone
\nWedding bells ain’t gonna chime
\nWith both of us guilty of crime
\nAnd both of us sentenced to time
\nAnd now we’re all alone
\nProtect me from what I want…
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