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Do you want to relive the experience of being absorbed in your favorite book? Do you feel like your emotions control you? You can take back control over your emotions and mental state through conscious application of music. For example, gyms always play fast, up-beat music to get their lifters pumped and ready to beat PRs. However, music can actually be used to illicit very specific emotions depending on your experiences.  Any song can be encoded in your mind to represent any emotion or personal experience. This might be absurd, but here are a few examples of song and mental state pairs that I have. Kordhell "Murder in My Mind" is the single-pointed focus I feel when walking briskly through an airport, hell-bent on getting to my gate on time. Billie Eilish "Therefore I am" represents the contemplative state of mind where I can create ideas to write about. Palaye Royale "No Love in LA" reminds me of the struggle and perseverance needed to read papers that I...

Boredom is a motivator. It drives people to think up something new to alleviate the feeling of aimlessness and restlessness that characterizes boredom. Time vs Biological Cues Humans today use time to gauge when tasks should be worked on or completed. Time decides where one should switch tasks. Time is standardized, and everyone knows what a minute, second, hour, day is. However, what did people use to govern their lives before the construct of time was invented? I think people used to rely on nature, external and internal cues to decide when to switch tasks; decide when to eat, sleep, spend time with friends and family, or hunt. Hunger decides when an ancient man must eat; tiredness, when he sleeps. Those are some examples of natural internal cues that drive human actions before the concept of time was known. Time vs Nature Natural external cues include seasons and weather. The sun decides when one must sleep because humans never evolved night vision. Seasons decide if it’s time to ha...