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Here’s a surprising truth it took me ages to grasp: by far the best way to spend more of your life doing meaningful, rewarding and difference-making things is to really feel the deep sense in which **you** **don’t need to do any of that stuff at all.**
The Imperfectionist: Acting Because You Don't Have To
Oliver Burkeman
As an experiment, I'd like you to try this out today:
• Notice as many good things that are happening as possible... they don't have to be huge: someone smiles at you, you accomplish a small task, you're cozy under a warm blanket...
• Stay with the feeling of each one for 10-30 seconds, making it more important and bigger in your mind.
• You can even imagine it as something that is sinking into you — perhaps a warm, glowy ball or a soothing balm over your heart.
Why Your Brain Fixates on the Bad Stuff
Rick Hanson
Developing musical long-term memory is primarily a function of careful, conscious listening. There is no more important activity in influencing one's style than hearing the same recordingfour songs of Horace Silver, Jack Teagarden, Franz Schubert, or whatever it may be, for an hour each night for a week or three-just intimate, involved listening, not memorizing or running to the piano or another instrument to "learn" it. This practice, if done regularly, helps put the selected music into one's history and The Yo vocabulary, and will affect one's performance to some degree.
Primacy of the Ear
Ran Blake
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