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To be able to see change is to be able to make change. I’m an advocate for slowness, not in the sense of dragging your feet or delaying your reaction but in the sense of scaling your perception to to perceive the events unfolding, because I’m an advocate for making change.
Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
Rebecca Solnit
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
Following the same logic, focus on one big project at a time (or at most, one work project and one nonwork project) and see it to completion before moving on to what’s next.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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