Greetings everyone,
Hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday!
This week’s newsletter at a glance:
On Musical Literacy
Do The Last Thing God Told You
New Scientific Ideas
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The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.
—Jeff Bezos
✏️ On Musical Literacy
In hindsight, one of my biggest regrets is not having taken my piano lessons more seriously as a child. Music plays an integral role in the development of the human identity, and the musicians of the past only become more relevant and phenomenal with time. A great musician, like a great painter or novelist, transcends technical proficiency. He brings to his work his upbringing, his faults, and his strengths, enabling him to produce a unique work of art through which to tell his story. And just like a good painting or a good book, a good musical composition can have a unique effect on its listener.
Whilst the deliberate improvement of musical literacy cultivates the obvious character traits commonly associated with learning a new craft - perseverance, patience, introspection - it also allows for the integration of emotion into one's work, particularly in composition. And simultaneously, one is able to explore these emotions on a deeper level through one's work. I hope in the future to be able to go beyond the appreciation of good music and fully experience the beauty of musical composition for myself.
Te absolvo
I forgive you
💡 Food for Thought
Better to be alone than in the company of toxic people.
🔗 Sunday Best
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By Khe Hy
At 31 I became a Managing Director in BlackRock's Hedge Fund Investing unit. Four years later, I semi-retired. Here are the networking, management and learning strategies I used to get those promotions so quickly.
Do the last thing God told you | Episode 132: The Just Different Podcast
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What if the key to your spiritual breakthrough is hidden in the last instruction you received from God? Maybe your next level is not about figuring out the unknown, but mastering what's known. This is your golden opportunity to get a clearer, more profound understanding of the pivotal role of faithfulness and commitment in your spiritual journey.
The Relation Between Stretching Typology and Stretching Duration: The Effects on Range of Motion
Citation: Thomas, Ewan, et al. "The relation between stretching typology and stretching duration: the effects on range of motion." International journal of sports medicine 39.04 (2018): 243-254.
Weekly frequency is positively associated to ROM. Evaluated data indicates that performing stretching at least 5 days a week for at least 5 min per week using static stretching may be beneficial to promote ROM improvements.
New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.
—Max Planck
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