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WoeBot online app for Depression and Aniexty

8/25/2019

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Picture cognitive-behavioral therapy app
I'm not a shrink. Use at your own discretion. If you are in distress, immediately seek medical help. 

https://www.businessinsider.com/therapy-chatbot-depression-app-what-its-like-woebot-2018-1#an-obvious-advantage-of-woebot-is-that-its-constantly-available-with-the-tap-of-an-icon-provided-you-have-a-smartphone-i-once-chatted-with-woebot-late-at-night-was-when-i-was-feeling-panicky-6

I just finished day 6. Yes, it helped somedays. You work with it each day about the same time, whether you feel up or down. I'm mostly feeling up these days. But, one day I wasn't and Woebot helped a lot. The article above explains a personal experience and some of the science behind the app. 

David. 

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What's got your attention?

8/22/2019

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Great questions from David Allen

What's got your attention right now?
What's the next action?

Some hypotheticals 
  1. You are listening to a new artist. You are intrigued by the harmonic structure of one of their pieces. Next step? Transcribe it.
  2. You've heard that London UK jazz youth are playing EDM inspired jazz on acoustic instruments. Research it. I know I'm going to hunt that one down today. 
  3. You are sitting in front of the TV scanning your phone reading this. Next step? Get up get moving. Go for a walk. Talk to your spouse. Go practice. Call a friend to jam. For inspiration to exercise click on the image link below for the article. 

Have a great day doing something. 

​David
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Breaking News: 60 year old learns some Hip Hop drum grooves and plays them in a jazz session

8/16/2019

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Was there shock?
Was there pushback?
Was it difficult to learn?

No, no, and no

Sounded awesome too. We were playing a straight 8th piece, I threw in a drum beat inspired by Drake. Now I'm pumped. What a breath of fresh air.

David
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Congruent goal setting

8/13/2019

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Goal setting is a great first step. Congruency is another.

Goals have to take into account your present reality. Reality cannot be ignored. Consider the following.

  1. The current state of your health.
  2. The current state of your relationships.
  3. The current state of your of finances.
  4. The current state of your of knowledge.
  5. The current state of your of your social networks.
  6. The current state of your schedule. 
  7. The current state of your immediate society. 

Sometimes some preparation is the first step on goal achievement.  

best, 

David

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An autoethnographic experiment in learning

8/11/2019

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A new blog: http://jazzdrumtranscriptions.blogspot.com/​

This blog hosts transcriptions, charts, and drumbeats that I'm learning. It is part of an autoethnographic experiment in learning: learning by ear verses learning from instruction books. The notation is a record of this process. I still work from Syncopation and Stick control. I still take lessons. But I'm working a lot less from "how to drum books".

My thesis is this: that which we struggle by ear to learn will "stick better" and be easier to recall in performance because it engages our auditory, kinetical, and visual senses differently. From ear to hands, not eyes to hands is a different cognitive path. The finer points of musical interpretation cannot be notated. How would you notate quarter notes as played by Tony Williams or Terry Clarke and capture all the nuances of execution? You can’t. I will spend the next year on this project and see what happens.

Best regards,

David
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Employed verses Retired mindset clash

8/5/2019

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I've reached the age where my cohort is retiring. Or, has been retired for awhile. There is tension. 

Retirees top topics of conversation:
  1. grandchildren
  2. endless personal medical updates
  3. food
  4. booze
  5. holidays
  6. listening and discussing music from 70 years ago (Miles) , or 50 (Beatles, Stones)
  7. endless stories of "back when I was great" and it's variant, "the world is going to hell".
  8. complaining about "young people"  (young people are now 50 and under)

Attitude to time: Accountable to few. Laidback with occasional flashes of anxiety. La de la...

Musicians who are still in the game topics of conversation:
  1. who we are playing with
  2. what we are creating
  3. where we are playing
  4. who is doing what, where
  5. who we want to play with
  6. what we are practicing and studying
  7. new music we are exploring
  8. how we stay in shape
  9. new gear
  10. endless stories of "back when I was great"  peppered with exciting discussions of projects left to do

Attitude to time: Accountable, pressured. Excited, fully alive with occasional flashes of anxiety. 

More on this later. 

Best, 

​David Story



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