studio non troppo : music : facilitation

Posts tagged: observation

Learnings

We learn different things from following instructions than we do from guessing, experimenting, and observing.

To catch a wave

Photo: TravOC In surfing, catching a wave requires being in the right place at the right time. As a beginning surfer, I marveled at how exhausting all the paddling was: paddling out through the break, paddling to try to catch the wave, paddling back in to position after missing the wave. The really good surfers never […]

Musashi’s lesson

Photo: Kanko* Musashi, the samurai, artist, and author of The Book of the Five Rings, wrote down a list of what he expected of a master swordsman. I don’t have the book in front of me (probably having lent it out one more time than I got it back), but I remember one of the items […]