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"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On 19/09/17 12:49, Davey wrote:
So you could be watching
Formula 1 on the PVR, while listening to Jeremy Kyle.

I am struggling to contemplate exactly whats sort of life a person
who might do such a thing, lives.

I have no idea, as I don't do it. Let us know if you find out.

I can just about understand recording formula 1 but no reason the listen
to Jeremy Kyle.
I've watched football and even the olympics while listening to a podcast,
I find it quite easy to do this as there's little of interest a football
commentator has to say although I like it when a player gives 110% or
more. So I can easily work it out for myself i.e who's winning.
I tend to listen to the TV when doing stuff on the computer.

You are lucky. I find that if I try to listen to anything speech-based
while I'm trying to do a task like watching an unrelated video or typing a
document, one or other suffers - usually I find that my brain quickly
switches off the words that I am hearing.

It's the same when I'm driving: music is OK, but I quickly lose the thread
of anything speech-based (a play, an Audible talking book) and heave to
keep going back (if it's a recording) to listen again to the bits I've
missed.

I dont. I dont bother with music and prefer to listen to
podcasts when driving and when out walking for exercise.

I suppose on the multi-tasking scale I'm at single-task end :-)

Yeah, very likely.

I never just watch a TV program, I always play freecell pro while
listening to the soundtrack and just pause the TV program when
things are getting very complicated in the freecell game.

My wife likes to doodle in boring meetings because it helps her
concentrate on what it being said. I tried it and found was concentrating
so much on what I was drawing that I missed what was being said in the
meeting - so for some people it *helps* whereas for other people it very
definitely *hinders*.

Yeah, you do appear to have a problem.

Trying to concentrate on reading a book when there's noise (especially
conversations) going on in the background is a definite no-no: in this
case my brain does the opposite and what is being said dominates and I
lose the thread of what I'm trying to read.

I dont find that when reading an ebook on my phone
in a doctors waiting room etc. Quite capable of ignoring
the conversations between the other people close to me.

It's always the unwanted background task that seems to dominate over what
I want to do, never the other way round :-(

Music is fine - it's only speech that I find either distracts me from what
I'm trying to do or else I can't concentrate on if I'm doing anything
else.

Like I say, I much prefer podcasts to music, in fact dont bother with
music.