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YouTube Removes Comedy Central Clips Over DMCA Claims

UGH!!! I’m pissed. :x

The non-cable having world needs this information! It is for the greater good.

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NaSoAlMo: National Solo Album Month

NaSoAlMo is a free yearly competition where musicians write and record an entire album during the month of November. The idea came from NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, where writers attempt a 50,000 word novel during the same month.

It’s all about enthusiasm and perseverance — Not perfection. It’s about silencing your inner critic for thirty days in order to be inspired and get things done. Your album won’t be perfect. The main point is to just do it!

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Scott Adams ‘Hacks’ His Brain

This is an amazing story.

First the Dilbert creator loses his voice due to a rare condition known as spasmodic dysphonia. Now he reveals in an amazingly affecting personal blog post how he learned to speak again. In Bodyhack.

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There Is Nothing Boring In Life. Only Boring People.

There is a common misconception that “things” can be boring. You may find doing your taxes boring. But some people find it riveting. Therefore, we can’t say that doing taxes is boring. “It” is not boring. Then what part of that sentence or thought is boring? It is the person doing the thinking that is boring.

The misconception lies in the implied cause and effect pattern that an activity can “make” another person respond in a certain way. It is also a pattern of universal generalization. It’s sloppy thinking brought on by sloppy language.

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.
-Wayne Dyer

The reason I bring this up is because of the large amount of musicians who tell me that practicing is boring. Or ear training is boring. Or listening is boring. No, my friend, you are boring because you are looking at things in a boring way.

Curious people are seldom bored. Conversely, boring people are seldom curious.
-The Wizard of Ads

How exactly does practicing cause you to be bored? You are choosing this response when you train your ear. Would you like another choice?

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
-Samuel Butler

If you want to be the best, don’t you think you should learn how to make practicing fun? Do you actually believe that it’s possible to become a great musician without practice? Or do you believe the research that suggests practice makes perfect.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
-Billy Graham

I challenge you to look at your musical future in a new light. Would you like practicing to be something you look forward to? How can you be the kind of person who enjoys to ear train? How can you find joy in the simple act of listening?

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
-Wayne Dyer

You’ve got two choices. You can stop practicing and stop developing. Or you can continue to practice and continue to develop. Which will you choose?

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
-Eric Hoffer

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