Is Music A Waste Of Time?

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Tai Lopez

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🗓️ 22 May 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Music makes people happy. But is everything that makes you happy good for you?

Music makes people happy. No one can argue that.

But is everything that makes you happy good for you?

Probably not.

Scott Weiland, the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, was at my house not too long ago.

He is famous for saying he LOVES heroin.Scott explained, "(Heroin) took me to where I'd always dreamed of going. I can't name the place, but I can say that I was undisturbed and unafraid, a free-floating man in a space without demons and doubts."The Grand Theory Of Everything says that the ultimate step in your life must be to achieve happiness.

Heroin Happiness...

But it can't be any old type of happiness. It can't be "Heroin Happiness" like Scott Weiland found. That type of happiness is one step forward, 10 steps back.

You want quality happiness.
In the modern world you can't go far without hearing music.
13 Years Of Music...
One study says that you will listen to about 13 years' worth of music before you die.That's a hell of an investment of time and energy. Some scientists says music is a complete waste of time.The Harvard Professor, Steven Pinker says in "The Language Instinct":"As far as biological cause and effect are concerned, music is useless. Music appears to be... a cocktail of recreational drugs that we ingest through the ear to stimulate a mass of pleasure circuits at once... Music could vanish from our species and the rest of our lifestyle would be virtually unchanged."
Strong words.I know many people who love music and would argue to the death that Pinker is wrong.For today's book of the day I read the fascinating "This is Your Brain On Music" by Daniel Levitin.

Levitin says that the scientists like Pinker have it all wrong.
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0:00.0	So I was thinking about music today. You know, I was reading Karl Marx. I like to read
0:09.0	every morning. Different books by great thinkers and Karl Marx was talking about the opiate
0:15.4	of the masses. You know, that's what he called religion. And you know, I think Karl Marx
0:22.2	was wrong. I think we know that now. I mean, this and I'm not here to talk about religion
0:29.0	today. But the real question to me is what else is the opiate of the masses? And for me,
0:35.6	the takeaway from Karl Marx is that he was saying there's things that distract us from the bigger
0:42.1	purpose. So if you look out in the world right now, what's the biggest legal drug? I live in California,
0:49.3	some marijuana is legal, but it's illegal in most places in the world. Right? Okay,
0:54.9	I'll tell you what's the most powerful drug in the world at work every day in the hearts and
1:00.3	minds and billions of people. It's music. You know, I live right here in Hollywood in the heart of
1:07.6	the music capital, right? You got all the music being pushed out here. Like I said, for a while,
1:13.2	Katy Perry here lived on my street. This is all music town. Two short lives on my street.
1:19.6	Ringo Star has a house here for the Beatles and it has become and for your life, if you're not
1:29.4	careful, it can become one of the most powerful distractants. Now, I read an interesting book today.
1:37.6	It's called Your Mind on Music and it's by this professor or levitton or it's called This is Your
1:46.2	Brain on Music. Sorry, it's by this Daniel levitton and it's a fascinating book. I mean, definitely,
1:53.4	it's on my website. If you want to pick it up, there's a link to it. It's on TylerPas.com where you
1:58.8	can check it out on Amazon and he just basically goes through why music is so integral to our life
2:07.5	because there's a famous professor, Harvard professor, steve it pinker and he's well known for
2:14.8	recently saying music is useless. That was his kind of quote that he said and it became very
2:22.2	controversial but he had a lot. He was backing it up by basically saying it's pretty interesting
2:27.5	quote. He says, you know, music is useless. It's just a cocktail of recreational drugs that we
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