How To Live Musical Life In 2025

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When we talk about guardrails, that's where those are important. That can come in the form of saying, I'm only gonna listen to maybe one album for this entire week because I wanna really go deep on it. And I'm gonna avoid going to a gig or a concert that maybe is really appealing to me. But I just sort of feel like I've had enough musical input.
Note: This! This is what I’ve been asking about. Balance between creating and consumption.

Here, he’s saying when you’re in creation mode, it’s okay to dial back consumption

So if I'm gonna go out and walk for 10 minutes on a break of a practice session, I'm definitely not gonna be listening to music during that time. I might be listening to the music of the streets, cars, the birds, or whatever else, but I'm really going to be giving myself a chance to sort of reflect in a very informal way in terms of what I've just been hearing myself practice and what I'm about to practice.

because sometimes really good habits can be hard to continue. I know we think, oh, it's a habit, we're always gonna do it. But things can throw us off, especially during the holiday time going into the new year, where we can lose really good habits.

inspiring. As we move into the new year, I find to not just get caught up in, like, what are the new habits I want to develop? What are the new things I want to listen to? What do I really want to practice and learn this year? What do I want to do? A lot of that can become really exciting, but it can also become. It can turn to being a little demoralizing as we start the new year and we start to realize, wait, I'm not going to be able to do all this, or I'm already falling short of what my goals were.
Note: Yes!

garden. But if you want some really beautiful stuff to grow, you got to make some space because the sunlight is going to come in. And what do we want the sunlight to be hitting? So that's part of the inventory as well. Thinking about some bad habits.

We're looking at getting Rid of clutter. So that the inevitable clutter of living a musical life and trying to progress in our instrument, that's gonna occur in our minds and in our hands, and then the sounds that come out, that stuff is gonna be there. But at least we don't have any additional clutter.

the. If the hike and the journey isn't enjoyable enough and you can't find joy in that journey, you're never going to make it to that mountaintop. You know, the hike has to be really the main thing, because once you get to the top of the mountain, once you get to next December with your, you know, if you achieve these goals, it's going to be great, but you're going to be thinking about the next year, right? So it's going to be a very quick enjoyment and then sort of moving on. So we want to have a plan, and a lot