Staying in the game

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The focus of this blog is to explore the practices, attitudes and motivations of successful artists and musicians in the autumn of life.

How to practice: exploring strategies and tactics in an aging body through book reviews, interviews, personal anecdotes, with the goal of staying happy, healthy and focused.
Attitude: what it is a good attitude, how does helps us to learn and persevere, which daily tactics help us to acquire or keep a good one, what to do if yours needs a tune up?
Metacognition: what it is, what it can teach us about learning, resources for study, conferences, and in practice.
Intrinsic motivation: what it is, how it helps us to learn and persevere as we age, how to help those we mentor with theirs.

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Staying in the game

4/5/2018

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To quote Nike: Just do it. But, staying enthusiastic takes some work. Sometimes the vegetative state, induced by Netflix binging, is seductive. Some tips:

Hang out with younger people, but keep your mouth shut. Nobody, but nobody wants to hear about the "good old days". Let some of that energy waft over you.
Learn something new in your field. I went to college 40 years ago. Maybe I'm a little out of date. :-)
Clean out the music collection and start over from scratch.
1. http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/artists/14787-top-20-jazz-albums-of-2017
Get the bike out of the garage and go for a ride in the woods.

Best,

David

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8/18/2018 08:10:48 pm

That's really amazing fun for all the time and it's good way to show your personality in a concert. I really appreciate your effort in the music industry. Thank you!

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9/19/2018 12:18:01 am

As opposed to you hanging out with younger people, I actually like to hang out with older people since I am still young. It amazes me how old people have so many crazy, good stories. Sometimes we think that we know everything because we studied and graduated from college. But in reality, you can never learn everything form textbooks alone. There are two kinds of smart people: textbook smart and street smart. You cannot become a street smart by reading books. You become one by experiencing life outside of books.

David

9/19/2018 06:41:50 pm

I agree completely. When I graduated from Berklee I was full of book learning. I remember being taken to task after a gig by a senior musician of some renown here in Canada. He said, "what the hell where those chords you played in that last song?!" "My Berklee chords", I proudly proclaimed. He wasn't impressed, he took out a pen and wrote the correct changes. "Play this", he said gruffly. I said, "DT, I paid a lot for these chords". He still wasn't impressed. To cut a long story short, I played his changes.

David

8/19/2018 11:53:58 am

Thank you

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9/6/2018 12:24:59 am

Good cards are a must when the stakes are high. Either that or a really convincing bluff, but no one can pull that off all the time.

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