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Why You’re Always In Such a Hurry & What Listening to Music Does to You

Something You Should Know

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The Power of Music to Survive

Music seems to be like the go-to thing that makes people feel better. What is it about music that does that? I think there's a number of things. When we sing in a choir for example, we release things like endorphins and we activate dopamine. And together those effects in our brain lead to this sense of acceptance within the group. So if you're singing in a barbershop quartet, it'll have a mild effect of acceptance. But if you'resing in something like a Mormon tabernacle choir, well thatIt's huge. This is again these kind of powerful signals that our brain relates to music much stronger than language alone.

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