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The Fallacy Of Expertise

While often propagated by those at the top, the idea that you’ll only make great music after attaining a certain level of experience and expertise is false.

If that were the case, the first music I wrote 16 years ago would be unlistenable and by now I’d be writing works of genius.

It isn’t and I’m not.

While experience and expertise are helpful, they can also bring baggage and the weight of expectation which gets in the way of creativity.

Give me enthusiasm and passion over experience and expertise any day. It’s no accident that an artist’s best work is often their first.

So go create! Just do it with enthusiasm and passion.

Filed Under: Featured Post Tagged With: Motivation, music production

Where I’m At

While it’s normal to gain insights when away from home, I’ve come back from my month in Australia with an uncommon clarity and focus about my career and life in general.

Before the daily grind kicks in and these thoughts start to feel like a dream, I created this on the flight home and now have it writ large on my studio wall:

What’s Important What’s Not Important
Intention Outcome
The journey The destination
Practise Performance
Being prolific Being perfect
Notes Numbers
Action Reaction
To play To win

Apologies if this is completely unhelpful and/or meaningless to you, putting it out there on this blog is meant as a personal exercise in holding myself to account.

But I hope you might find it interesting or even useful as a starting point for your own musings.

Filed Under: Featured Post Tagged With: inspiration, Motivation

You’re Not Talented

I get annoyed on those rare occasions that people tell me I’m talented.

Because unless you’re lucky enough to be a genius you don’t have a gift. You’re not talented. You are no more or less able than the next person.

What you do have is the ability to better yourself through determination, persistance and practise.

Filed Under: Featured Post Tagged With: genius, Motivation, talent

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