 Hello everyone! So this is a video about noise. In various videos before I've talked about how it's important for you as a freelancer to find a place you can work from, right? And a lot of you work from home, like I'm doing right now, but sometimes you like to get out so you can go to a coffee shop, you can go to a co-working space, you can go to a library and I mean, you know, in a bunch of other places that you can go and get work done. Most of you will have your favorite place that you go to. Out of those who go out, a majority, at least from what I've seen, a majority tend to go to coffee shops and you'll see that if you go to any coffee shop, usually you see, you know, at least a few people there with their laptop working on something. Unfortunately, in a coffee shop, you also find a lot of people who decide to have group meetings or just get-togethers or just friends meeting up, you know, and so anyway, you have people having conversations out loud, sometimes very loud or else it's just background noise. A lot of coffee shops just have background music playing and all that. Now, this might not bother you all that much, but chances are, chances are it will bother you, even if you think it doesn't bother you because especially if you're a translator, you're dealing with words and so to hear other words around you all the time can be very distracting, even in your subconscious. I believe, quite frankly, no matter what line of work you're in, if you get caught up in other people's conversations or other people talking at the same time, it can be distracting and you shouldn't be multitasking in that way, especially when you're dealing with translation. Having someone have a conversation right next to you about something completely different while you're trying to, you know, understand one language to another and translate it can be very disturbing. So what I try to do, and this is, this by the way, is in response to a comment I received by Corvena, I guess, is the name. I mean, it's more as a reaction to her comment. She left a message saying how she would work in the library, but also how she had a playlist and you can create a playlist on Spotify of classical music. And so I reply right away because I agree very much. I actually listen to classical music a lot when I work outside of the house, because classical music I find has no words and so you don't get distracted in that sense, but at the same time it acts almost as white noise, but nicer than white noise, but because it drowns out all the surrounding sounds. Now what she said is you can create a list on Spotify and follow that, which, yeah, well, obviously you can do. I've never really done that. I know, I mean, people use Pandora here in the States as well. I just have a couple iTunes channels that are just all classical and I've just listened to those. Another thing I've been listening to recently is a lot of like electronic music, kind of techno music, but again without words, just because I feel like the quicker beat keeps me a bit more pumped up to get work done. And so I have a couple of channels that I listened to like that as well. And in fact, I've recently found out and I'll link to it in the description below that there's a guy, Evan Carmichael, I think is his name. Some of you may follow him already because he's very big in the entrepreneurship world. And he creates playlists for productivity and for studying and stuff like that of music, which is usually I think all instrumental, but kind of upbeat and can kind of help you out. So what I'll do is I'll link to, if he has a playlist or some videos or something, I'll link to that in the description because those might be quite useful for you as well. And just something to keep in mind when you do work outside of the house, especially in a coffee shop where it can be loud and you need to concentrate, maybe you don't even notice it, but it definitely helps if you can drown out that noise. So if you have to drown that out with something, you have to drown that out with a different noise. If white noise helps with you and that's just clear static, then by all means you can do that. That doesn't help me at all. It kind of just puts me to sleep and I don't know. Otherwise, yeah, I would say classical music is your best bet. You can try the electronic music as well. And that should be a good way of just drowning out useless sounds. That was just a quick tidbit there. And I hope you find it useful for the future and for working on your laptop in public so you don't get distracted too often. You get more work done. If you did find it useful, please don't forget to click like because that always helps. And don't forget to subscribe for more videos about freelancing and I'll talk to you in the next video. Thanks. Bye.