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“You need to still practice a lot! Watch my playing.” some fairly well known player wanted to tell me. What is the use? who should care? and why should they care? Who benefits? HOw do you contribute to anyone’s enjoyment or growth? In the culture code, Daniel Coyle reminds us that vulnerability is essential to

Squandering time on what is already known, vs deliberate portioning that takes care of the important part (profit and tax money) in the very beginning, so that whatever may happen with the remaining precious practice time, we are safe with the parts that matter. Business is for profit instead of fire putting. Practice is for

Why not play the slides on an electric guitar? why use the acoustic? the acoustic nylon string for Indian Raga slides is a personal choice. The reasons can be similar to choice of Windows vs OS – Simon Sinek and others will remind us that the reasons come second, the real why’s being in spaces

Adam Grant in his book Originals talks about how certain exceptionally successful people including Martin Luther King have been procrastinating till the last moment for exceptional results. Sitting before the sequencer to arrange and compose, one pauses, takes time without touching the keyboard instead preparing the work in ones mind. Just going with the flow

In her book Presence, in the 8th chapter, as Amy Cuddy mentions pill bug kind of curling reactions and similar social situations where one has to be conspicuous, like asking question in Harvard Business School class… … one thinks about how people feel about publishing online,specifically on YouTube. one of the first things Amy mentions

Without knowing the connection with the audience, the artist practices walking in circles, while telling themselves hypothesis over hypothesis with no real goal, no real idea on how to move forward, what details to look for, where to focus or who oneself is… as represented through the art. Business is where we really talk about

‘When’, the book by Daniel Pink, reminds us that insight problems, which need less alertness and more openness, which are solved like an ‘aha’ after the logic is tired, are better solved when we are not at our best, dictated also by our bio rhythms. Makes me think: more analytical and teaching and detailed videos

Adam Grant gives us practical selflessness so that we can give as much as we want without worrying if we are being naive, at the same time, know how to make sure that we are preserving ourselves and the ones who are dependent on us. Give, give… at the same time, it is my income,

keeping time away for quality work. it is not time management. the quality of the effort, the way we work, the kind of work we do is of importance. the person who spends two hours every morning before work to get his manuscript done. avoiding mail and other wastes of time. being there in bigger

Feel the fear and do it anyway makes a change because of the side from which the author is speaking – with us, while talking to us, not just from a far point, but here, with us, telling us what to do. And… obviously there is a very big AHA from the very beginning the