Xanthe Briefly

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  • 5: Are You a Procrastinator or a Pre-Crastinator?

    When we pre-crastinate, we get tasks out of the way very quickly, rather

    than waiting on them. I tend to pre-creastinate on more trivial tasks,
    while I continue to procrastinate on serious goals. Pre-crastination can
    ease our mental burdens and make us feel temporarily accomplished for
    having achieved a small goal. One potential way to harness the positive
    effects of pre-crastination is to break down our big goals (the ones we
    tend to procrastinate on) into smaller, manageable chunks. That way, we can
    still benefit from confidence boost of more frequent accomplishments while
    tricking ourselves into making progress on our real, procrastinatory goals.

    Pre-Crastination: The Opposite of Procrastination

    by David A. Rosenbaum and Edward A. Wasserman for Scientific American

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    Stories album for piano, strings, and electronics now on iTunes
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    4 min
  • 4: Power of a Haircut

    Haircuts - aren't they amazing? Wearing my hair how I want to wear it (as

    opposed to how others want to see me) is a small but empowering act of
    self-affirmation.
    What's your relationship to your hair? How do you affirm yourself?

    PS: Screw what everyone else thinks. This is about you.

    Where to find me

    My Website
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    Email me at [email protected]
    Subscribe to my mailing list
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    a free song download.
    *Stories *album for piano, strings, and electronics now on iTunes

    Enjoy my music? I’d love to have your support on Patreon for as little as $1/month!

    4 min
  • 3: How to Recover From Disappointment

    Woke up disappointed. Somehow turned my day around. This is how.

    Note: Please do not confuse disappointment and sadness with depression.

    Depression is something much different that I also do experience, but that
    was not the case this morning.

    Cheryl B. Engelhardt,

    songwriter, composer, music biz & branding consultant
    In the Key of Success podcast

    Where to find me

    My Website // Twitter // Email: [email protected]
    Subscribe to my mailing list
    for
    a free song download.
    Stories album for piano, strings, and electronics now on iTunes
    If you like my work, I’d love to have your support on Patreon for $1/month!

    3 min
  • 2: Musical Interpretation Game! - query, defy, echo

    My first musical episode! For this one, I randomly selected a few words

    from my Patreon suggestion box and interpreted them with my violin. If
    you'd like to join my Patreon and give me suggestions for my next batch of
    musical interpretations, you can do so here

    Here are the words I play in this episode

    query: to ask; to question
    defy: to challenge the power of; resist boldly
    echo: to resound with an echo (a repetition or close imitation)
    Thank you to Kevin Hsu, Tyler Ford, and Paola for those verb suggestions!

    Where to find me

    My Website
    Twitter
    Patreon

    Email me at [email protected]

    My Stories album on iTunes

    Thanks for listening!

    3 min
  • 1: Perfectionism Kills

    The agony of perfectionism, my embarrassing confession, and a book recommendation for fellow perfectionists.

    PS: I ended up changing the name of the podcast shortly after recording this, but I’m keeping the episode anyway. All in the spirit of accepting my process, right?

    Book recommendation: Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

    Where to find me

    My Website
    Twitter
    Patreon

    Email me at [email protected]

    3 min

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Composer, violinist, and singer-songwriter Chrysanthe Tan speaks in 3-minute bursts on the introverted creative life. Or rather...what it's really like to be an independent, autistic artist in LA.…