All right, let me see what I got. I'm at Amanus. I'm going solo today. I thought I'd take a swing at our theme song,

Emotion in Motion by the Great Peter Martin. Today I wanted to talk about a couple of things that I've

been really working on in my own musical growth, and I thought they were really interesting and I wanted to share them with you. But before I do that, I just want to mention our sponsor Open Studio. Go to Open StudioJadio.com to check out all of our courses. Hey, check out our new magic voicing system course that I made. It's become super popular. It's a really easy system for playing five-note

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We'll put a link here to magic voicing. That's open studio jazz.com. So today I want to talk about a couple of things we get asked about a lot.

The first is, when should I move on from practicing?

And we talked a little bit about this, but I've been doing more and more thinking and more

research on this.

And the second is exploration and our own ability to find things that lock in with us as opposed to

just reading from a book or taking from a video, the importance of growth and the importance

of exploration within growth. I want to start here.

I've been reading this book called Transcend by psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman.

It's great, by the way.

You should check it out.

And his chapter on exploration starts with a quote by famous philosopher

Sorin Kierkegaard from Either Or, which is a book I used to try to

impress women with when I was a young man, if I'm being honest, reading it at cafes, as a 19-year-old

would do. But it starts off with this great quote from Soaring Kirkgard. If I were to wish for

anything, I should not wish for wealth or power, but for the passionate sense of potential,

for the eye which ever young and ardent sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.

And what wine is so sparkling, what's so fragrant, what's so intoxicating as possibility.

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