Whether you’re a morning person or a night owl, your productivity levels will ebb and flow throughout the day. Some people are alert and ready as soon as the day starts while others do their best work in the evening. However, there’s a window of time that is almost universally unproductive—the late afternoon slump.
Everybody knows how important an active lifestyle is for the wellness, strength, and resilience of our bodies. What about the impact of exercise on our brains, though? Can physical movement enhance mental health and cognitive performance? What’s a good alternative if you don’t particularly like going to the gym? In this month’s installment of The Productivity Box, we’ll make the case for dancing.
Do you have a coworker who always seems to have their headphones in, tapping along with the beat or mouthing the lyrics? Maybe you are that coworker who can’t get through the day without your favorite playlists. Have you ever thought about why music is so important to your workday, whether you’re only listening to a few songs or a whole opera?
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Communication takes many forms. Not just in the different tongues we use, but also in the accents we apply when we open our mouths. Different communities may agree to pronounce things in a manner that may sound natural to them, but peculiar to others. In fact, that’s how many of the existing languages formed over the millennia.
In the late 1800s, George Bernard Shaw made an interesting remark in a music review that looked at the disparate sounds produced by orchestras in Manchester and Lancashire.