Creating Passionate Users: iPods increase performance?
23 02 2006Creating Passionate Users: iPods increase performance? This is a great article about how Olympic ahtletes are using their Ipods to help with their focus and training for their events. Some even have Ipod controls built into their suits. Crazy! Ipod wins the Olympics
Talk about creating passionate users. What can do that better than music? Music is tied to every aspect of life. Its in movies to add drama, in commercials, and now with earbuds in every ear, it’s like having your own sound track to life.
But what is the effect? Are we more dramatic? Or passionate?
It seems like the saturation of our lives into music actually has the opposite effect. People are less tolerant of other music. They just don’t want to hear it.
So my question for the day is, “Does music function to heighten our lives or help us hide from it?”
Wow, you’ve hit a nerve here. I may even blog this post over at Another Storm if I get a chance to later on. The thing is, music–both the music that I perform and the music that I listen to–is such an integral part of my life. It’s interwoven into both my personal and family history, and I can’t imagine that being a negative thing. Am I intolerant of others’ music? I may dislike much of it, but I don’t know that I would call myself “intolerant”. I just believe that its important to have music as a part of our personal experience.