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A big mug of freshly brewed coffee, a pair of over-ear headphones and the remixed version of Radiohead’s The King of Limbs album (named TKOL RMX 1234567, if you’re curious) – this is my formula for finding focus.
For me, coffee is like brain juice. It’s magic. I don’t even think it’s the caffeine; it’s the ritual of making the hot drink that seems to notify my brain it’s time to get to work. The headphones work like a pair of blinkers, not just shutting out the world, but telling it not to distract me. And the music, electronic and sparse in lyrics, seems to scratch the part of my brain that gets an itch to check out whatever interesting stuff might be going on in the rest of the world.