Staying in the game: The best practices, attitudes, metacognitive strategies, and intrinsic motivations of aging musicians
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​How to simplify everything to lower the cognitive load during the pandemic?

7/8/2020

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Cognitive overload: Too much information, not enough context, too little time to process and reflect= stress, from the resulting inefficiencies in holding information in our memory for later retrieval. 

A good example for musicians in memorizing music. Apparently as we age, we lose abilities with working memory. Memorizing becomes increasingly difficult.

How do we improve our working memory? It's complicated, but decluttering the mind might be of help. 

Ten things to help lower this stress to free up our processing power, so to speak.

  1. Acceptance that life is complicated, and aging is, if you are lucky, inevitable.
  2. Lower social media use, this apparently is a negative factor of modern life.
  3. Access news once a day, or week. Another difficult edict during a pandemic.
  4. Do an audit of one’s daily activities. It may be time for a reshuffle, reordering, or abandonment of  activities and goals that are no longer relevant. Circumstances change, people change, you’ve changed.
  5. Take a nature walk, leave the phone at home.
  6. Call a friend, have coffee, chat about nothing important.
  7. Practice without an agenda. With the current pandemic situation, it’s going to be awhile before activities musical resume. Have more fun with your instrument.
  8. Declutter your studio.
  9. Revisit your goals. Are they congruent? (It’s impossible to suck and blow at the same time.)
  10. Seek out competent sources of information on this subject from eminent authors. My goal with this blog post is to excite your curiosity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load#Effects_of_heavy_cognitive_load

David
 
 

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