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 Brains are super weird. Some days I work in complete silence with no noise. Sometimes I need music, sometimes an audiobook, sometimes a TV show I've seen about a billion times going on in the background. I don't know why my brain is like this, but it seems that sometimes I need the maximum amount of distraction to achieve focus, if that makes any sort of sense. 
 Probably should have prefaced this with *hits joint.* 
 *With the office playing in the background* 
 you are dehydrated lol 
 But I've been drinking so much water lately. I don't see how I could be dehydrated. I'm talking like four or five nalgenes a day. 
 I made a fake fact 😁 
 Some days I don’t talk to a human till like 3pm and my brain doesn’t know how to socialize at all for a second 
 Lol. I get that.  
 I stopped going out for lunch with my wife on coding days as I was just annoying to be with.  
 Same, but most days I function best with fast paced music 
 Yeah, I listen to a lot of instrumental hip hop and drum and bass. As long as it's instrumental.  
 Is this because you have extra voices in you heads? 
 Yeah. I get it.
Most of the time smallest distraction throws me off track. And then can be super focused around craziest loudest environments.
I think the latter takes work to get to, and the former is everybody