Playing It Safe Is the Riskiest Thing You Can Do
Let’s just get straight to it: there’s no room for safe any more. Safe is guaranteed boring. Safe is guaranteed mediocrity. Safe is a guaranteed ticket to nowhere exciting. Economy, of course. The appeal with safe is that it’s easy. It’s easier not to take risks. It’s...
Seven Simple Steps to Songwriting Success
If you’re like many people today, you might like to think anything can be done in just a few, easy, Google-able steps. And you wouldn’t be totally wrong: there’s a quickest, most efficient route to accomplishing anything. But you’re barking up...
What If Your Greatest Liability Is Actually Your Greatest Strength?
More than once in my life, I’ve been told I’m a sensitive person. And I don’t disagree with that assessment. Though for a long time I did what I could to stop my sensitivity being a problem. I was conscious of it, and I downplayed it. I thought it...
Why I Object to People Who Call Me Talented
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. MICHELANGELO Let’s put another common belief in the interrogation chamber: that talent is innate. That we’re either born with certain abilities, or at the very...