Healing at the Speed of Sound: How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains and Our Lives

Use the music you love to become more efficient, relaxed, healthy, and happy.

At this very moment, you are surrounded by sound. Pause for a minute and try to listen to it all: the chatter of a passing conversation, the gentle whoosh of air vents, noise from a nearby street. We rarely pay attention to all that we hear, but every noise in our environment has the ability to affect our mood, our productivity, even our health—for better and for worse.

Drawing on a decade’s worth of gr…