…packing it in here today Rik…lots of good advice but as a accidental occasional musician the experiment often hit me as an outlier…finding wrong notes can be just as important as playing the right ones…and feedback might be the only way to know which is which…
Isn't that also a Miles Davis thing? Or was that the silence in between the notes? Anyway, listening to one's self and other musicians for feedback might be the best example I've heard on this.
it’s funny how incessant the fear response is such that I need to hear this message over and over and over again to stay even marginally ahead of it. So thanks for bringing the subject to your newsletter today. someone I’ve been coaching for a while with public speaking expressed their success in this respect in such a beautiful way. They recently sent a note to me saying “now I am ready to fail at a moment’s notice.” I love that way of looking at the useful process of failure and I’m now aspiring to that goal, worded in my mind in just that way
Oh yes, this is mostly written at myself, just because of that same incessancy :) Love the 'ready to fail at a moment's notice'. I'm guessing public speaking is the perfect testing ground to practice that.
…packing it in here today Rik…lots of good advice but as a accidental occasional musician the experiment often hit me as an outlier…finding wrong notes can be just as important as playing the right ones…and feedback might be the only way to know which is which…
Isn't that also a Miles Davis thing? Or was that the silence in between the notes? Anyway, listening to one's self and other musicians for feedback might be the best example I've heard on this.
...i think heroin was the miles davis thing...at least if i remember the autobiography correctly...
Hahaha. Yes, you remember correctly.
it’s funny how incessant the fear response is such that I need to hear this message over and over and over again to stay even marginally ahead of it. So thanks for bringing the subject to your newsletter today. someone I’ve been coaching for a while with public speaking expressed their success in this respect in such a beautiful way. They recently sent a note to me saying “now I am ready to fail at a moment’s notice.” I love that way of looking at the useful process of failure and I’m now aspiring to that goal, worded in my mind in just that way
Oh yes, this is mostly written at myself, just because of that same incessancy :) Love the 'ready to fail at a moment's notice'. I'm guessing public speaking is the perfect testing ground to practice that.
yes, speaking in public is definitely an accelerator to face and develop a working relationship with the fear dynamic