I agree with your post and thank you for sharing. I think time management, being able to be coached and a desire to get better helps in business. I started singing jazz when I turned 50 and remembered that no one was a born athlete or a singer and I had to work to be successful, so I worked and practiced and now am having a blast doing gigs on a regular basis.
Love this, too. Much respect to you for exploring, developing and applying talents throughout life.
I just finished Alan Paul's Brothers & Sisters -- a great book about The Allman Brothers Band with a focus on the period just before, during and after the motorcycle crashes that took the lives of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley. It includes lots of contemporary interviews with many band members. These taped interviews satin a box in an office for decades. It helps that Paul has written another book about the band. The segments around recording, live performances and band interactions outside performing reminded me so much of athletic teams that excel.Figuring out roles. Understanding roles. Testing limits. Managing conflict. Overcoming mistakes and adversity. The opportunities and dangers in success. It was interesting to learn of the disparate influences that each member brought to the band and how they integrated those. The parts were amazingly great and, at times, the sum was transcendent. I didn't see these lineups, but I saw a different lineup on 8/4/79 out at Red Rocks in Colorado and it was a 3+ hour religious experience. Amazing,.
This morning, the music shuffle on my walk gave me a tune by the late Wayman Tisdale -- someone like you who excelled at basketball and music. He was gone way too soon due to cancer.
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