The Modern Musician Show with Colin Thomson

029: Solo Saturday: "Anything Worth Doing is Worth Doing Poorly Until You Can Do It Well"

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Key Take Aways:
  1. What is your potential? - we usually think it’s basically limitless
  2. What is the only way to find your potential? - it’s to produce
  3. When you produce anything, there’s only one place you can start from: exactly where you are at this instance
  4. Not where you think you can be sometime in the future
  5. This means: you are forced to come to grips with the complete understanding of what your abilities are AT THIS SECOND
  6. But THIS second is all that counts!
  7. You can have all of the potential in the world bottled up inside of you, but if you’ve done nothing to cultivate that potential - it doesn’t count for anything
  8. Is flies against some of the ideas of perfectionism that can sometimes come into play for the artist
  9. And perfectionism is good in the amount that it can drive you to really push yourself, and to work really hard
  10. But perfectionism can be a hinderance when it comes to actually putting products out there, into the world, as finished products
  11. This means: not hiding, telling everyone “oh, this is just a rough draft,” etc - but rather completing something, recording it if you’re a musician, or performing it if that’s your thing, and NOT APOLOGIZING FOR IT
  12. When we apologize for what we create - saying it’s not the finished product or whatever, we’re falling into the trap of the “perfectionist” who can’t get anything done
  13. But you are only as good as that finished product
  14. This is where the Zig Zigler quote comes in - If something is worth doing, then it’s worth doing NOW, even before you can do it as well as you want to eventually!
  15. And if you want to do something that is worthwhile, and you want to do it well, the only way to get there is to do it poorly at first
  16. So swallow your pride, create music and art that really shows where you are NOW
  17. And then make an effort to make each subsequent effort better and better!

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    The Modern Musician Show with Colin ThomsonBy Colin Thomson interviews musicians and entertainers like Bryan Callen and Bobby Owsinski , to get advice on what musicians should be doing today. Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, and Justin Timberlake should also come on the show, as well as Taylor Swift, Justin