How to Be More Intentional

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I share the single question that all musicians at the Curtis Institue of Music ask before they open their instruments to make sure they get the most out of their practice and training.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting
0:05.2	a little better at life.
0:07.2	I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about how to accelerate
0:13.4	your growth.
0:15.3	More to come on that in a moment.
0:17.0	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.
0:37.0	Okay, so Jonathan Cooper-Smith is the chair of musical studies at the Curtis Institute
0:48.5	of Music, which is one of the leading institutes for music, if not the leading institute.
0:57.0	Actually, I think they're called conservatories, but whatever the language is, top notch, and
1:04.3	the students that attend there are world-class musicians who are always looking to refine and
1:12.5	get better and are operating at a very high level of performance.
1:19.9	And each year, as part of the MAT program, the Masters of Applied Positive Psychology
1:25.2	program that I teach at UPEN, we have Jonathan Cooper-Smith come in when we're talking
1:31.5	about music and the humanities and their relationship to well-being.
1:37.1	And recently, when talking about goals and intentionality, he mentioned that all Curtis
1:45.9	students are trained to ask a very specific question before opening their instrument each
1:53.9	day.
1:55.1	And that question is, what am I working on and why?
2:01.5	What am I working on and why?
2:04.2	So before you even open up your instrument, you ask this question.
2:09.3	And there was something about that that really stood out to me, the simplicity of it.
2:14.7	But yeah, there's something about it that was just piercing, cutting, and penetrating.
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