If you've ever lived through construction—banging, drilling, dust and dirt everywhere—you realize how difficult it is to live, let alone concentrate, in such an environment. But if you've ever lived in an apartment building with the family above you doing construction, it's that much more difficult. And if you've lived in that scenario in Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel), where the workers start at 6am, drilling, hammering, banging, pounding all day, it's literally unbearable. You can't hear yourself think, let alone talk, let alone concentrate.
I was in such a scenario, and I was trying to cope and deal. What could I do? I tried putting on music, and I tried doing this, and nothing worked. But then I made the music a little bit louder and occupied myself with something. Over some time, what happened was that I got distracted by whatever I was doing, and the music was loud enough that all I sort of heard was the music, while the banging and the drilling became nothing more than background noise.
There are times when temptations to look somewhere seem impossible. It's blaring, it's banging, there's drilling, and we feel like: How could I not do that? How could I not look there? How could I not do that? At times the answer is: Put on some music. Something else. Start diverting your attention and occupying yourself with something. Before you dive in, before you click, just walk away from the computer. Put on some music and start doing something else.
And as we slowly occupy our minds and our brains, what happens is that the temptation slowly subsides as we get sucked into the action we're doing, the music we're listening to. So the next time it seems insurmountable, quickly turn on some other music, walk away, get involved in something else, and you'll realize within a few short moments that all you're going to be busy with is that something else with some beautiful music. Yes, there will still be that buzz in the background. The temptation is still going to be there, but slowly it will subside.