November 16
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The mind has a mind of its own much of the time.
That's not a typo. The mind...has a mind...of its own.
You know how it goes.
You have that thing you want to do that's been procrastinated on for years. Decades? But it seems to be the mind's default mode to procrastinate.
You know you have the time to practice 10 minutes a day, but time feels out of your control.
Or no matter how much you tell yourself you don't need so many cookies, they sure feel good at the end of a long day. It's like we can't help ourselves sometimes.
Music study presents an interesting opportunity to explore how our minds work. To hack further in.
We weren't meant to be passengers swept along with our mind's whims.
We have the ability to take real control and direct our minds the way we want.
It's easy to be used by our minds in this day and age of stimuli everywhere. But when we use our minds to forge the path we want, life-changing things can happen.
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