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Shut Up Already!

If you’re sensitive to sound like floors creaking, chips crunching, and loud breathing you, then you’re practically like an intelligent fellow. Science has proven that the inability to shut out sound can be linked to creativity and also the key to genius. Franz Kafka, Charles Darwin, and Anton Chekhov are great people who complained about too much noise.

Researchers at Northwestern University had 100 people tested to find out their ability to profer original solutions to problems with and without sound. A strong relationship was found between the inability to shut out irrelevant audio stimuli and creativity.

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