It may be that you don’t need to be a visionary.
It may be that you’re the kind of person who, rather, recognizes the potential in someone else’s solid vision and decides to lead the charge for that vision. Perhaps being the part owner or CEO instead of the founder is where you will thrive.
Having a keen eye for a visionary’s vision is a rare a valuable skill.
First Monday of the month means new Hum Love playlist on Spotify and Apple.
It’s ten new songs each month. The old ones get added to the Hum Love Archive playlist.
We can’t make the magic feeling last forever. But with the the right track at the right time, it’s there. It’s so familiar and so elusive. We wrap ourselves in that chorus and never want to leave.
But the song always gets over. So we have to keep going. Keep writing, keep listening, keep our eye out for the magic to return.
What do you do with enthusiasm? When you or someone you’re working with brings enthusiasm to the table…
Is it fostered
Is it entertained
Is it trusted
Is it too childish to be trusted
Is it merely put up with
Do people get on board
Do the others squash it and move on
Is it taken seriously
I’m sure in your experience is a mix of all of these…but enthusiasm is a gift to the person who has it and when they share it, it’s a gift to the group.
This gets said many times in the studio and is followed up with a reference to another sound or song.
But there’s confusion…
By ‘like this’ do you mean you want it to sound similar?
Or do you mean this is exactly how you want it to sound?
Often it’s the second one cloaked in the first.
An artist isn’t going to come out and say they want to copy a snare sound or guitar sound…But then they’ll want to keep tweaking it until it sounds exactly like their reference.
‘I want it to sound like this’ is really helpful when everyone knows what you mean by it.
Recounting the steps and stories of your journey on a podcast or interview doesn’t add a new chapter to the journey.
Telling your story isn’t necessarily the same thing as adding to it. And adding to it is far more important to your career than recounting it.
The goal is to redirect the interview into a building block rather than just another rehash of where you’ve been.
It’s not enough to get the desired outcome. We want to script the journey too.
If the journey isn’t going our way, we highly doubt the outcome is going to happen.
And the journey is almost never following our hopeful script. So we live in constant doubt of the desired outcome.
The times the desired outcome has come to pass, we quickly forget how greatly the journey differed from what we wanted it to be.
We know we can’t set the script for the journey or the outcome and yet the main thing we get discouraged by is when they don’t live up to this ideal.