Category Archives: Let The Music Play

Jul 01 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

Accelerate Experimentation

If we can multiply our number of experimentations, we can multiply our chances of being on to something new, something to move us, and something that is ahead of us.

Galileo Galilei once said, “Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.”

Question: Can we measure without concocting something or conducting an experiment first? I think not. Case in point: You cannot say today was a good day without first having lived the day.

The mixologist must mix before he can measure whether or not he’s on to something. He’s a chemist. He experiments. Then he tastes, measures, and pours his experiment down the drain or puts it on the menu.

It’s Monday. Mix day.

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Jun 24 2013
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Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

What’s Your Gut Saying?

Probably something along the lines of a push towards fulfillment, experience, and meaning.

A push towards music and, hopefully, a pull away from the noise.

Nevertheless, if you never listen you will never hear it – and that’s one voice you don’t want to forget the sound of.

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Jun 20 2013
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Change The World, Let The Music Play, Music

The Boundary Between Music and Noise

In 1983 Thomas Clifton wrote about the subjective experience of music and said the boundary between music and noise changes over time as the conventions of musical interpretation evolve within a culture, to be different in different cultures at any given moment, and to vary from person to person according to their experience and proclivities. It is further consistent with the subjective reality that even what would commonly be considered music is experienced as nonmusic if the mind is concentrating on other matters and thus not perceiving the sound’s essence as music.

That may be one of the most beautiful distinguishing blueprints of music/noise that I’ve ever read.

At LTMPblog we seek to find experience, meaning, and fulfillment within the framework of music as a metaphor with our lives, families, and businesses. Essentially, our goal is to define, find, and create whatever the music to your follower’s, friend’s, and customer’s ear is…and you can do this by noticing what their hands exchange, observing where their feet take them, and reading their expressions and experiences within one’s cultural framework and mindset as they partake in your so-called music.

Whatever or whomever you’re leading, just know that music leaves clues.

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Jun 03 2013
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Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Marketing, success

Like that guy…

Why do it like the guy in the next cubicle?

Why do it like the last guy that came before you?

We’ve seen him – noticed him – and he holds that spot in our minds.

That’s his spot – not yours.

But you’re different.

Your eye sees differently.

Your pen writes differently.

Your words flow differently.

Your style is stylish because it’s different.

When you are different everyone sees it. They see it because it’s hard to miss different in a world of normal.

We don’t need more and more of what we already have.

That’s where you come in.

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May 24 2013
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Please Don’t Stop The Music

There’s a rumor that some school districts are doing away with or consolidating their art and music classes at the elementary level.

I would assume this is probably to fit more standardized teaching and preparation for more standardized testing. Even though the tests the world procures for us outside of academic walls are anything but conventional.

There’s a big difference in asking “what’s the answer?” and “what do you see?”. The answer is memorized. What is seen is imagined. Art gives us that opportunity.

There’s a big difference in asking “what’s the answer?” and “what do you feel or hear?”. The answer is a formulaic. What is felt and heard taps into soul. Music gives us that opportunity to tap into such things.

Maybe school should ask more than it tells its students…the same goes for parents: children, leader: team members, etc.

Learning thy self just may be the highest form of education, and we have a problem when our children have missed the opportunity to discover their own unique and personal voice.

It never ends well when we let the music stop.

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