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The GOOD 30-Day Challenge: Art Every Day - Culture - GOOD
Art is essential. If you haven't reached that conclusion on your own, consider some evidence: Science shows that exposure to art is correlated with enhanced abilities in math, cognition, and vocabulary.Creative Capital
Creative Capital is the only national grantmaking and artist service organization for individual artists with an open application process. Our selection process includes three steps: inquiry, application and panel review.
Personal Development Blogs List - Sources of Insight
"You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger." —John C. Maxwell
As Maria Robinson once said, “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself
The other day, after a talk to some graduate students at the Julliard School, one asked, "In The Dip, you talk about the advantage of mastery vs. being a mediocre jack of all trades. So does it make sense for me to continue focusing on mastering the violin?" Without fear of error, I think it's easy to say that this woman will never become the best violinist in the world.
Seth's Blog: Self truth (and the best violinist in the world)
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This guest post is by Paul of http://junhax.com. Bachelor’s degree . . . bare minimum.
Warning: Are You Doing the Bare Minimum?
Emerging Ideas: Classical Music’s New Entrepreneurs | Createquity.
Classical Revolution PDX: Mattie Kaiser / photo by Mollusa
These are just a few of the responses that I’ve gotten when I’ve mentioned that I listen to podcasts, or encouraged others to do so.
The Postgrad Agenda.
No matter your salary , you can always take steps to improve your life and health.
51 Healthy Living Cheat Sheets to Improve Your Life
This guest post comes from Dave Cool , the Blogger In Residence at musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle . I’ve now been involved in the Montreal music scene in some way for 17 years, and have seen many artists and bands come and go. Now that I’m in my 30’s, I’m starting to truly understand what it takes to “make it” as a musician/band.
5 Top Characteristics Of Full Time Musicians - hypebot
When the Jewish community of Alexandria collapsed, everyone in the family except Isaac went south, to a corner of the Belgian Congo where Jews from Rhodes were congregating.
The five worldviews that define American politics - War Room - Salon.com
The 100 Best Books of All Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The World Library is a list of the 100 best books, as proposed by 100 writers from 54 different countries, compiled and organized in 2002 by the Norwegian Book Club .Musician Kim Boekbinder has kindly dropped in to explain why she’s having to reinvent the concepts of the gig and the tour. A few weeks ago I played a concert in Portland, Oregon which was attended by exactly 18 people. After everyone else got paid, I made exactly $12.50 USD.