There is plenty to be confused about. You could walk around all day and all week completely confused. Just walkin around lookin around, confused.
Confusion comes from a lack of understanding…and understanding people, situations and why people do things in certain situations is hard to come by.
So it’s up to us to choose the confusion we will focus on. To choose if the road to understanding is worth the price or our attention, energy and resources.
It’s better to get off to a fun start than a normal start.
If you’re meeting someone new, interviewing for a YouTube channel, interviewing for a job, right at the beginning ask them what’s their favorite vacation. It’s fun to talk about vacation. It brings back light and happy memories. And now you’re talking with a person who has just told a fun and happy story. You’ve shifted the course.
Starting with a little fun takes a little more energy. It’s risky. The normal way is fine…no one is going to complain that you didn’t start with something exceptional.
Good luck. Have some fun with this one.
If a long career is what you want, get good at things that will build a long career. A couple tried and true tactics that go back many years: great music and putting on a great show.
If a flash in the pan is what you want, be meticulous about the latest avenues that promote quick hits, fast assents and great short term money .
If a famous and long career is what you want, the most important thing to add to great music and a great show is an uncanny ability to hire the right people at the right time.
The tools for any of these paths are quite literally at your fingertips.
The treasure is more fun when it’s lost.
Found treasure becomes normal treasure and eventually we forget it’s treasure at all.
Found treasure is on display somewhere and anyone can buy a ticket to go see it.
Found treasure has completed its tale. It has a bookend to its story, an end to its lost-ness.
But lost treasure? Lost treasure incites adventure and risk and living on the edge and the attractive uneasiness of the unknown.
Chances are you got into the thing you’re working on because you liked the fun of lost treasure more than any promise of finding it.
Going from a Les Paul Jr. to a Les Paul Gold Top doesn’t make you a better guitar player.
But the upgrade might make you think you’re a better guitar player.
Thinking you’re a better guitar player might unlock the confidence to act like a better guitar player.
And once you start acting like a better guitar player, you’re well on your way.
So get the Gold Top. It’ll be great. But remember the Jr. has the exact same notes.
Nashville. Very hot and humid in the summer. And a handful of of icy cold days in the winter. All this amounts to some very deep, tire-wrecking potholes.
And where do the potholes almost always show up? The same place they were last time.
A quick fix for a deep problem works for a short time. But although you can’t shut down the highway every time there’s some bumps, eventually you need to do the hard work.