Listen to music when you are working Listen to music, especially that without lyrics, sometime may be helpful for working. Music can help you relax and make you calm, that's important for concentrating. For some ordinary work, says, some work that do not need to much deep thinking or analysis, music can make you more efficiently. But it doesn't work for all the kind of work. If your work needs a deep thinking. for example, when you are solving some math or physics problem, you'd better shut down the headphone. Because the these kind of work needs a quiet environment.