Situation Identification
100meters
For a long time I didn’t like watching the 100 meter race. It’s over so quickly and a lot of the time I could never tell who won until they did they slow motion replay.
But now I like it. Because the strategy is simple and so fundamental…go as fast as you possibly can. At no point should you be trying to do anything else other than going all out. It’s freeing.
The strategy has diminishing returns when you start using it for the 400 meters or the mile race. But sprinting is the perfect strategy when you only have to go 100 meters.
I think there’s something to this for the rest of us non-track runners. A lot of the time our goals are akin to a long race…lots of methodical strategy, diagraming a plan, pacing, breathing techniques.
But I think sometimes the chance for a sprint pops up and we’re so used to our brain-game-strategies that we don’t notice the wonderful opportunity to just GO. To forget about the million layers of strategy and replace them with pure speed.
Time As A Factor
We aren’t very good at considering the factor of time and what time can do for the result we hope for.
May see results in four hours. I’m in.
May see results within seven days. Ok, I’ll go along with it.
May see results in one year. I’m out. You mean after one year I “may” see results, it’s not even a guarantee?
Here’s the thing…in one year you’re going to get results either way. It’s up to you how much you actively want to participate in steering them.
Studio Archetypes
The studio is a joyous, volatile, creative, dream making, dream crushing microcosm of life that reveals the simple and deep layers of all who participate.
Day one is happy. But by day three or four or forty, true character comes out.
If you’ve been in the studio perhaps you know who some of these people are and which ones you are…
When’s lunch guy
Lets skip lunch guy
I brought my own lunch guy
I already spent my per diem guy
Don't leave me out guy
Always right guy
Let's not fight guy
I hate you guys guy
Speed it up, energy guy
Slow it down, feel the groove guy
I don’t put click in my mix guy
I play the same thing either way so I don’t care guy
It almost sounds too perfect guy
We need to tighten it up guy
We’ll fix it in the mix guy
One more take, one more take, one more take guy
The mix is weird guy
Always talking while listening to the mix guy
All the mixes sound the same to me guy
We need to start over guy
Candle guy
Coffee guy
Special chair guy
Hair guy
Making music is a gift guy
We only have till Thursday guy
It’ll be fine guy
Runs studio intern ragged for his own selfishness guy
Music And Memories
First Monday of the month, new Hum Love playlist on Spotify and Apple.
The music we love is tied to memories. The music we were listening to was new to us, it was good, we tie it to what was going on. So when those songs come on later in life we get to relive the memory…which makes the song even better.
It isn’t that you aren’t making memories that are just as sweet these days but chances are you’re not listening to as much new music to associate with your new memories.
Making your own playlist on a regular basis helps with that...more new music in your life being tied to your new experiences and then, memories.