It turns out, Adams is an evil genius. If you like the music you’re listening to, you can get into a rhythm and it’s not distracting. If the music is like fingernails on a chalkboard to your ears, you’re going to devote part of your thinking capacity to daydreams about the best way to kill the person who picked the playlist, and you’re going to be distracted, and the whole point of the training is for you to learn how to concentrate and ignore distractions. It was effective.
