Welcome to The B-List.
Part story, part toolbox: ideas on finding success and personal fulfillment in music.
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Gratitude and Disappointment
Gratitude is about your ability to feel both happiness and sadness, and to make the most of all the experiences of your life.
You don’t have to go alone
My best teachers taught me that we are students for life, and you never have to learn alone.
Pathway practicing
When we practice in a truly productive way, we identify the difficult transitions and dissect the issues using informed practice techniques from the toolbox we fill during our studies. In turn, our brain builds stronger and stronger pathways for the actions we need.
Trusting the experience
What happens if you truly focus on the feeling of playing in this exact moment?
Dear Future Me
Writing to ourselves in this way lets us acknowledge all the work we have already done, all the things we already know to be true about ourselves, and all the ways we hope we will honor that knowledge in the future.
Non-self for musicians
At its core, Non-Self provides space for self acceptance, self forgiveness, and a path out of perfectionism.
Failure by any other name
Understanding our true experiences, whether they are positive or negative, can bring us a more realistic, satisfying, and fulfilling approach to work and life.
Choice and Change
To sustainably create positive change for yourself, you must choose to be the conscious observer of your thoughts.
Mindfulness in action
Thoughts and feelings are not truths, rather, they're events that we can choose to participate in or not.
Where to begin: intentional practice
How to connect with yourself to create more productive and intentional practice sessions.