Productive people work in quiet places. Yes, I know there are exceptions but by and large, most of the time for most people, their brain simply work more productively. When there is quiet. You can tell yourself you work a lot better with music you can tell yourself you work better with news on TV entertainment. Lots of people chattering chances are you're simply fooling yourself my recommendation, try at least one full week where you have a workspace where you do not have any noise distractions. Now, if you work in the middle of a big office, and it's an open office concept, you may need to get noise cancelling headphones, you may need to get earphones have people think you're listening to music or on a conference call.

Do whatever it take find a room in your home if you have a home office that has the least amount of noise right now. I'm in my home TV studio. It's an old large closet, no windows, therefore, no noise from outside. It's also this part of the house. Well not technically a basement this part is surrounded by ground so it's very, very quiet. It has a door, the doors closed, I took the time to carpet the walls.

Now you may not have the need to go to that extreme. Do what it takes to create a workspace for you that is quiet so your brain can actually hear itself. Think