Brain FM
Hey E-com Insiders, we’re going to change gears today and we’re going to talk about an app that I want to show you for you to try and see if it helps with your productivity. Now it’s called ‘Brain FM’. You may or may not have heard of it before. It is music for the brain and it’s got a bit of science behind it. In the end even with good science it either has to work for you or it doesn’t and you’ll only know by giving it a shot. There’s some pretty cool ways that they produce this music that sounds like a great idea and it’s worth giving it a shot. So, you can see you just go along to Brain FM there is a page I can’t remember now. There’s a paid version. I think there might be some free access as well. But if you have a look it’s basically music that is designed to put you into different cognitive states. It’s kind of driven by an artificial intelligence.
So, you can see basically that you can have music that is designed to help you focus meditate and help you sleep. I pretty much only use it for this focus one and find it really effective. One point six million lines of code I guess that’s impressive, but it’s the most advanced AI a music composer on the planet according to them. You can see there’s a range of people using it including the US Wrestling team. There are just comments like this which I all agree with them “Brain FM is absurdly great for highly focused work.” I agree with that. “To fellow grad students and scholars Brain FM check it out my focus and productivity has improved substantially.” I agree with that. “Brain FM is the best thing since sliced bread.” I don’t know about that because chocolate you know like chocolate. Anyway I just wrote all of it. Anyway basically she digs it. “On a scale of dry to wet Brain FM is Niagra bloody Falls.” I agree with that as well. So, it’s awesome you want to give it a shot. So, what happens is when you go in here you, log in and you get to choose what you want to do whether you want to focus, relax or sleep. What it will do I think from memory when you first get in there when you first set it up it will actually ask you what kind of person you are. Hang on let me pause that. It’ll ask you what kind of person, what stress levels you’ve got and that type of thing. It takes all those things into consideration when it produces your music for you. So, what you do is you click on ‘focus’ and it loads the brainwave audio. It’s already doing it for me because I’ve trained it for the thing that I like. After every session you can see down here you can choose to do a 30 minute, 1 hour, 2 hour session or infinity. Let’s pause that. And after each session you get to rate the piece of music and how you were from a Productivity and a focus point of view and then that way you’re telling the system whether it worked for you or not. So, you can either let it just do it for you or you can explore music.
So, when you go in here under each of the options focus, relax and sleep you can see that if you prefer piano then you can have it so that the music that it creates for you is based around piano, cinematic, beach focus, chimes and bowls, electronic music focus [that’s my favorite] ,forest focus, night sounds focus, rain focus [this is pretty cool too it’s got thunder and stuff like that in it] and then relax focus [this was good]. That’s kind of the genres if you like to think of it that way. Here is what it does and a bit of the science behind it. First of all they filter out really low and high frequency sounds. They filtered those out so that they don’t act as distractions to you when you’re focusing. So, if you’re listening to typical EDM music or some other music like that those high and low frequency sounds which are very novel and attractive to our brains they’re not filtered out. So, when you put that music on and those sounds happen your brain is distracted even. If you’re focusing you still get distracted by the sound. So, they filter those out so that almost all the frequencies are happening in a mid-range and so therefore it’s very constant and hypnotic. That way you’re not being distracted by the music that’s number one. One of the other things they do which is pretty cool is when you listen with headphones which is the way they recommend that you do this it’s not designed to just listen to you put headphones in is. With the mix so the stereo left to right front and back balance, they actually put the music in front of you. So, it’s not in the middle of your head it’s in forefront and that’s because the things that are in front of us cause us to look forward and pull us forward. So, I don’t know if that helps but that’s what they do. Because the music is there again it’s all about you then focusing forward in on what you are doing. So, you don’t have the distracting high and low frequency sounds and the mix is right in front of you to keep your focus forward on what you’re doing. So, there’s just two other things that they do that make this more scientific, but in the end you won’t know till you give it a shot. So, I highly recommend it. I use it all the time. What’ll happen is I’ll come in here and if I select this I’ll select like an hour or two and it just goes, but I feel energized with it. I also combined it with a nootropic because I love to get the most out of my brain and we know that certain supplements definitely help with that. So, I combined it with a nootropic just to get the most out of my brain and the time that I’ve got.
Go and check out Brain FM and there’s an iPhone app I think Android as well so you can have it on that. The times I have used it for relaxation, meditation and for sleep I found it good there too, but I just find that most of the time the reason I use this is for focus. So, check it out, let me know what you think in the comments below, say hi to me and I’ll see you in another mind hack soon.