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Thursday, January 21, 2016 • Duration 34:54
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014 • Duration 30:40
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The Pathway to Mastery, Part 2 – The Ideal Composer Apprenticeship
Sunday, February 16, 2014 • Duration 24:56
Episode 5 of the Art of Composing Podcast. In this episode, I cover the next stage of your pathway to mastery, the apprenticeship. Find out about why an apprenticeship is so important, the different phases of an apprenticeship, and how to take the most advantage of your composer apprenticeship.
What is in this episode:
What is an apprenticeship, and how long will it take?
The three phases of an apprenticeship.
The 8 Strategies for getting the most out of your apprenticeship.
Resources and Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Mastery by Robert Greene
Episode 5 Take Aways
The goal of an apprenticeship is not money, a good position, a title, or a diploma, but rather the transformation of your mind and character.
There are three phases or three modes to the ideal apprenticeship.
They are Deep observation or the passive mode, where you observe and absorb as much as possible about the world you are trying to master.
Skills acquisition or the practice mode, where you break down all of the necessary skills in your field and practice them until they become tacit knowledge.
And Experimentation or the active mode, in which you take that knowledge and you create your own work so that it can be judged by the public and yourself. You are trying to fill the gaps in your own knowledge so you can become better than you are now.
The 8 Strategies For the Ideal Apprenticeship are:
Value learning over money.
Keep Expanding Your Horizons
Revert to a Feeling on Inferiority
Trust the process
Move towards resistance and pain
Apprentice yourself in failure
Combine the "How" and the "What"
Advance Through Trial and Error
Transcript
Welcome back to the Art of Composing Podcast. I am excited to have you listening today.
Today's episode is going to be about Mastery. What it is, how we can attain it, and why we would want to attain it. But I am not going to just talk about Mastery as an obscure theory. Instead, I thought this would be a good opportunity to a little bit talk about my history, how I started composing, how I got to where I am, and how I see my journey unfolding. I don't consider myself a master of music composition, but I am working towards it. And I hope part of the reason my website, artofcomposing.com resonates with people is because I am approaching the subject of teaching music composition from the standpoint of having to teach myself.
So without further ado, let's get on with the featured content.
Featured Content
Mastery is a subject not often touched on or talked about in modern society. If you think about it, most things in life are really designed to prevent you from mastering a subject.
The biggest culprit for this, I believe, is not TV, although TV doesn't help. No I believe its school. School is designed, from the beginning, to be a place of conformity and regurgitation. You are forced through your most creative, and curious part of your life to listen to teachers talk about subjects you just don't care about. And then after the day is done, you have to go home and study those same subjects, and do your homework.
This all leads to a lack of motivation on the part of children to care much about school.
For me personally, this lead to a habit of procrastinating. You see, procrastination really has nothing to do with you being lazy. I was and I still am, a hard worker. The thing is, I just never wanted to work on what I had to work on. Homework, diaramas, reports, papers, whatever.
Let me say first though, that this has nothing to do with the teachers themselves. I had some great teachers growing up, and I have friends now that are teachers, and many of them care deeply about the kids they teach. But they are in a system that is designed to create factory workers, not mastery.
So why am I talking about this.
Well, I want to make it clear that mastery is attainable for anyone. That is right.
The Pathway to Mastery, Part 1
Saturday, December 28, 2013 • Duration 22:44
Episode 4 of the Art of Composing Podcast. This episode is all about starting on the pathway to mastery. What is mastery? Well, it is the state that you achieve, where you have almost magical powers of control over your chosen field. How do you achieve master? You'll just have to listen and find out. I also talk about how I started composing, how I got off the path towards my life's task, and what it took to get back on the pathway.
What is in this episode:
What is mastery, and how do you achieve it.
Jon - An Autobiography (kind of)
How to identify your life's task using the 5 strategies from Mastery by Robert Greene.
Resources and Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Mastery by Robert Greene
War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Episode 4 Take Aways
Mastery is really about a state you can achieve, in which you have a power over reality that most people do not have. This power comes from fully absorbing all aspects of you life's task.
Your life's task is the thing that you feel deep down, that you are called to do.
To identify your life's task, you have five strategies:
Returning to your origins is basically connecting with your true passions.
Occupying the Perfect Niche is all about working your way towards a life that will support and nurture your life's task.
Avoiding the false path is all about not being steered in the wrong direction.
Letting Go of the Past is about looking at the direction you're life has been taking, and having the courage to say whether you've been on a false path, even if you've worked hard in a particular field.
Finding Your Way Back is about being willing to make a cut with the progress you've made in order to get back on your true path towards mastery.
Transcript - AOC 004
