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On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:49 PM, richard sales <richard@glasswing.com> wrote: > For me, cluttered room = cluttered mind. Cluttered mind = cluttered > music. LOL - I must chime in with a comment to this as I happen to represent the absolut opposite personality type! I don't even KNOW whether my room is tidy or messy. When I start working I go into a zone and everything else simply vanishes around me. My natural state is to NOT know what day of the week it is, something that annoys the shit out of some people (so I try to find out now and then what day it is because I'm a nice guy and don't want to annoys that much shit out of that many people). And I don't follow the strategy to make decisions of what I want to focus on... I don't think I have ever made one single carrer decision in my hole life! Opportunities just come up - often too many and too often - and I tend to simply go with the most exciting one, dive deep into it and "get lost" there for a while. I have found that chaos and not knowing how to do stuff is creatively productive, given that you just do it anyway while figuring out how-to's as you're moving along. The key point here is to really figure it out and finish it up to your highest standard. With that attitude it doesn't become destructive to goof around "trying a little here and something else over there" because since you dive so deeply into each obsession you come out with valuable experiences and skills. This is the typical renaissance ideal, most respected back in the days before specializing in something became the new in thing. Ok, your learning curve advances more slowly but I strongly believe that you can achieve things that isn't available if living by the focused decision-making strategy. Deeper aspects of everything, cross contamination of neurons... and a hell of a lot of fun. Please note that I'm not propagating for an unstructured life, rather for an open mind and not building your inner logical structures on the outer environment. An example can be to "not learn the gear but learn what the gear does", or maybe "don't practice where to put down your fingers on your instrument, practice how the note's vibrations come together to create music". Focusing on the real thing, but the real thing is everywhere, all the time - so it's a never ending task ;-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen