#phainesthai

In his book "Why we sleep", Matthew Walker distills all of the science about the subject that's been gathered in the last few decades into an easy to read distillation of why this misunderstood

"The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without

We all know that we need to eat healthy. But recently, scientists seem to arrive at a consensus: Meal timing is maybe as important a factor in diet as food quality. Primitive humans living before agriculture

There is a trend that's a few years old now and seems to be taking over the internet more and more: reaction videos. I'd consider this one of the modern plagues we are facing that needs to be eradicated

I was writing a song today, and I realised that I had neglected song structure. The individual parts made sense, but not the whole. Then I started thinking about all of the other layers. Every note. Every

Us steemians already do this for ourselves at least to a degree, but I think it worth reiterating: Start working for yourself as early as possible. Only work for others as a stepping stone to working for

Before the internet, most people only competed locally. You had to be among the best musicians in the area to have an audience. Or if you were one of the best accountants in your town you were pretty much

Thoughts pop up randomly into your mind, but if you stop for a bit and analyse them, you’ll realise that most are not yours. They’ve been planted there from the outside. From a friend, a book, the internet,

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. -- Bruce Lee I just finished a guitar practice session and realised to my disappointment

The last few days I wrote two posts about emotion and its role in making music. Then I expanded and generalized the concept for art in general, attempting to put into words the process that makes art that

A few days ago I wrote a post about why emotion is the most important thing in music. I promised to make a post about how to make art that seems to speak from your soul and that connects deeply with an

I just got home from a rock concert in my hometown. I watched two of the best local bands perform live. But while experiencing everything, I felt like there is something missing in these local shows when

I've only been here for a few days, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but maybe my fresh perspective can be useful. As I understand it, in this system the rewards for a post accumulate over

I did a bit of thinking on this prompted by the Daily Stoic journal. It made me realise that most, if not all of my annoyances stem from my weaknesses, not from external pressures. In our modern lives,

The world around us is far more complex than we can possibly imagine. With our limited senses and consciousness, we can only glimpse a small portion of reality. Furthermore, everything in the universe