How You Do One Thing
Is How You Do Everything
The study of classical guitar has taught me first hand that there is a “way” to everything we do.
Your approach to learning a piece of music will either keep you alive for the next one, or kill your aspirations over many weeks.
Strategy: It’s the meta-thought behind all thought.
And strategy applied to the development of technique is a powerful concept.
Without a strategy, you will go into a piece of music and learn it with mistakes.
Then you will keep regurgitating the mistakes over and over again like the Three Stooges walking into another they’ve set for each other.
So we spend the time to program a passage in slowly.
We don’t want to write mistakes to the hard drive.
Your brain will keep printing them just like a computer does.
How will you approach your next project so that you see it through to completion?
Where do you often get disrupted in the creative process? At one point do you consistently lose steam and inspiration?
Hint: Monkey Mind, the busy overthinking that we tend to fall victim to.
A strategy will help you spot these ways of working that you have reinforced into your subconscious over and over again.
What are you working on these days? Share it in the comments to help verbalize it and put it out into the world.