http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2012/04/09/why-noise-can-increase-your-productivity/ - Are you the kind of person who can't get a thing done unless you're listening to the radio or the television in the background? Or are you the kind of person who thrives in the tomblike silence of a library's reading room? We're all wired differently, but here are Ron Schenone's ideas about why he concentrates on a task at hand better in the midst of some kind of noise.
You can watch the entire live TLDR episode here: http://youtu.be/8ydlgTKjhiU
