SOS Episode #58: Play To Your Strengths: Discovering What Your Music Is NOT In Order To Align With What It Is
Everyone has strengths and natural tendencies–areas where things naturally come out well. Everyone also has places and activities where they simply don’t shine.
If you spend your time slugging it out in arenas where you are not aligned with your inherent strengths, you run the risk of perpetual striving and never quite succeeding.
Learning to trust that you have everything you need to succeed is a matter of filtering (provided that you are trying to succeed at the “right” things). Some examples of how to filter your way through your life experience include:
- taking the best and leaving the rest
- accepting the influences that serve your life and detaching from those that don’t
- choosing your endeavors consciously
- attuning yourself to the gut wisdom that tells you when a person, place, or activity is a “match” and when something isn’t quite right.
Listen to this SOS episode and let it guide you as you discover finer and finer details about four inescapable influences that you will need to reckon with as an artist: your generation, your cultural background, your personal style, and your musical values.
March 1st, 2009 at 12:02 am
Just wanted to say thank you for addressing this issue/idea. It’s something I have been struggling with for a long time(identity.) The best part about this is that it made me realize that I wasn’t completely insane or on some weird existential head-trip to nowhere. At least now I know it’s an existential head-trip to somewhere! Thanks again.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Hi Marion.
Thanks for your comment. What kind of experiences have you had where you have not fit in musically and what have you learned about your music from these episodes?
Would love to hear more…
JP