Music’s ability to give goosebumps is scientifically proven. In the same vein, music has the ability to energize, motivate or simply to give one the necessary energy for another workday.

I also feel that each song has a threshold at which point it will no longer trigger that emotional response that we first elicited out of it, be that excitement, sadness etc. And that threshold is different for each of us and lies somewhere between 1 listen and 1,000. For example, About Today by the National didn’t lose its appeal until after hundreds of times.

Each song also has that ability to transport us back to a specific time and place as well. It’s an amazing thing – music.
One example, is the song attached, which I liked at first and felt it had run its ground but then gained new significance when combined with the images of the new Spike Jonze ” Where the Wild Things Are“.

I mentioned to a friend last night that I would not know what to do with myself were anything to happen to my ipod (the one I bought in 2004 and has recorded every song (pretty much) that I have listened to since then.

We each have different songs that motivate us and within these posts, I will offer mine.