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Why do we like listening to music?

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Do we listen to music differently in different stages of our lives?  Do we find some songs more gratifying than others in different times in our lives? Why do some songs make us feel good inside and others are just... just alright. Is it the wave frequency or is it that we relate to the lyrics? I, personally, know that I am not drawn to the words, sure it's great when the songs connect to your feelings and thoughts, but that is not my top requirement when choosing which songs I like or I should say which songs pull me in. I don't feel I choose them. They automatically get replayed and eventually given the title (at least in my head if I don't share them with anyone) that this song is goood.  My taste of music is different than what most people around me like. It is a personal thing. Most of the time I listen to music either on my earphones or in my car, sometimes there are others around me where in that case I listen to different genres usually something more upbeat. Most d

Do engineers think differently than marketers?

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(http://www.thinkgig.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/think-bigger.jpg ) Does your job or what you studied impact the way you interact with people, the way you see the world, and the way you make your life decisions? Knowing that the brain is a muscle and that it develops and changes according to what we feed it and surround ourselves with, does it make us look at things differently and have us make decisions differently? From one individual to another, our train of thought is perhaps educated more or less in the same way during our school years but the process is different. We have all learned that 2+2=4 but the process we take to get the answer is different--each school, school system, parent, etc. approaches this equation differently. For example, there are schools who teach you to memorize the equation (memorizing the times table), while some schools teach visual methods such as hand counting gestures or moving beads using an abacus. Although we might think we are educated