Welcome to The B-List.

Part story, part toolbox: ideas on finding success and personal fulfillment in music.

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Rethinking Productivity and Scheduling

As someone with an affinity (compulsion?) for optimizing and productivity in a culture that is enthralled with achieving more, it can feel like being in a never-ending loop of employing the next best app, setting reminders in our inboxes and calendars, and trying new programs for productivity, always on the cusp of our best selves and output yet.

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Solving as an Antidote

Where our instinct is to be avoidant, the answer is not blind repetition or hope but detail. We find the detail through the process of solving as opposed to doing. Doing feeds the sense that something can still go wrong, that judgements will still be made by the audience we’re imagining. Solving, however, trains us in repeatable thoughts and actions - neural pathways we can strengthen and trust that are independent of how we feel.

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Small

When we get lost in something that catches our eye or attention and we allow that thing to take over our view, it grows in size as we recede. We become small, but not in an insignificant way.

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