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How musicians are being held hostage by their limiting beliefs
Attention-grabbing headlines turn heads and sensationalize what might otherwise be just a strong, solid response to a problem, not an actual hostage situation. What’s the problem? Our motivation is being held at ransom…
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Discovering your own uniqueness and using it wisely to connect with others
Even when performing in an ensemble, our individual uniqueness impacts audiences far more deeply than we’re used to recognizing. Cloning our heroes Many times we start life by replicating others. Apprentices did this…
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Become an expert by focusing on one thing at a time
Of all the options available to musicians, how does anyone become an expert? Perhaps a better question would be… What should I become an expert in? We choose what we study Because musicians…
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Why understanding (not replication or competition) is the key to learning and winning
There was a time when we all learned by replicating someone else. Walking. Laughing. Writing. As we got older and our minds began to have conscious thoughts, we shifted our learning more towards…
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How labeling people creates a “box” that doesn’t actually exist
A pet peeve of mine is that awful cliché “think outside the box”, because we like assigning labels to almost everything these days. Ugh. A box implies there are limits – boundaries. When…
