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doing something regularly keeps you sharp, and keeps the thing fresh in your mind so youâre thinking about what you wanna do / do differently the next time youâre practicing, and the easiest way to do that is to reduce friction however possible
whatâs worked for me in the past is (1) paid classes; the structure, communal environment, and losing money / losing face kept me going, which in turn kept me motivated and excited, and (2) routine collaboration; when i was fresh out of a paid class for DJing i talked to one of my friends who was interested in learning, and we agreed to meet every saturday morning by default to practice b2b unless we had a previous obligation, which kept us both excited, looking for new tracks, and freed us from the guilt of âwhen was the last time i practiced? when is the next time iâm gonna practice? should I even keep trying?â
if it stays easy and fun, youâll keep doing it, so youâll stay motivated; itâs just about figuring out what you need to keep it easy and fun :)
whatâs worked for me in the past is (1) paid classes; the structure, communal environment, and losing money / losing face kept me going, which in turn kept me motivated and excited, and (2) routine collaboration; when i was fresh out of a paid class for DJing i talked to one of my friends who was interested in learning, and we agreed to meet every saturday morning by default to practice b2b unless we had a previous obligation, which kept us both excited, looking for new tracks, and freed us from the guilt of âwhen was the last time i practiced? when is the next time iâm gonna practice? should I even keep trying?â
if it stays easy and fun, youâll keep doing it, so youâll stay motivated; itâs just about figuring out what you need to keep it easy and fun :)
Mar 20, 2024
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đeverything rec'd so far will be good (the vid i liked is what helped for me) but ultimately it hinges on repeated practice
Feb 21, 2024
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đEasier said than done ;)
But itâs the only way to be successful with anything you do
May 29, 2024
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đȘHe is really good and staying consistent with stuff and when I asked him for advice on staying consistent with working out he told me his philosophy is âDonât skip your wannabe habit two days in a row. If I didnât do it yesterday, I have to do it todayâ and itâs pretty easy to translate to other things too!
Oct 16, 2024
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a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason itâs still standing is bc itâs unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isnât just charting the attention economy but also attempting to âsolveâ it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason itâs still standing is bc itâs unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isnât just charting the attention economy but also attempting to âsolveâ it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
