Steal this Trick to Get More Work Done

1 Feb 2023

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A short YouTube monologue in which Neel Dhingra shares a personal productivity trick: playing instrumental film soundtracks as background audio to enter a focused ‘zone’ and get more work done. He offers three immediate examples (The Social Network by Trent Reznor, Passengers by Thomas Newman, and Interstellar by Hans Zimmer) and notes that complete soundtrack albums are available on YouTube.

So here's a trick that I use to get into the zone and get more work done than 98% of people out there. So when I sit down to start working on my list, I will put on an instrumental audio soundtrack, and I'll just let this play in the background for hours while I do my work. And I'll give you three examples that you can try right away. But just try it. Trust me, it works really well. The first example is the Social Network by Trent Reznor. The second one, I would say is Passengers by Thomas Newman. And then the third one is Interstellar by Hans Zimmer. Or actually, you could check out any soundtrack that this guy's written. He's amazing. Now, you can find these complete soundtrack albums on YouTube for free.