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Seven Ways to Become an Active Listener Using Classical Music

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Seven Ways to Become an Active Listener Using Classical Music
// Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement

You're reading Seven Ways to Become an Active Listener Using Classical Music, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.

Music is present during virtually every activity in our daily lives. Whether you're in an elevator, waiting in line at a drug store or shopping for new shoes, music is likely playing around you. But ask yourself this, do you really listen to this music, or do you simply hear it? Chances are, you're doing the latter. Why is the distinction between hearing and really listening so important? For many of us, learning to listen intently and give our undivided attention to music can benefit many areas of our lives. As I've observed in thirty years of teaching active listening and classical music appreciation, when people begin to really listen to music, and classical music in particular, they become better listeners and communicators in their jobs, relationships and beyond. The benefits of learning to listen intently are really endless. Many folks think they need special training to understand classical music. I argue, while not all of us can be virtuoso musicians, we can all be virtuoso listeners. For those looking to reap the benefits of listening to classical music, I've outlined seven steps you can take today to help you become a better classical listener.

1. Make a decision. The first step in active listening is to simply ask yourself: "Am I really listening?" This sounds ridiculously obvious, right? But we actually have a decision to make. We have to decide if we are we going to multi-task – which includes even just thinking about other things – or, are we going mono-focus and give the music our undivided attention.
2. Embrace alone time. This may sound anti-social, but the truth is, even when 2,000 people are sitting in Carnegie Hall together, they are each in their own private listening world, taking in the sounds around them and having their own private reactions. So don't think twice about sitting in front of your computer or phone by yourself with your earbuds in.
3. Use YouTube. It's not like the old days when the classical music-curious needed to sift through bins of LP vinyl records or CD cases with no direction on what to purchase. The entire history of classical is all there on YouTube, ready for your enjoyment – for free!
4. Stick with the winners. You may be wondering where to start if you're not familiar with classical. Here are eight excellent options to get your feet wet:
   1. Mozart: Overture to the Marriage of Figaro (04:30)
   2. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, Movement III (05:00)
   3. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21, Movement II (06:30)
   4. Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Movement III (06:00)
   5. Fauré: Pavane (orchestral version without chorus) (06:30)
   6. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Movement I (07:30)
   7. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2, Movement II (11:30)
   8. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé – Suite No.2 (16:00)
5. Find your focus. Having made a decision to listen with all of your faculties, you might be wondering: "What do I actually focus on?" Pay attention to the rhythms, the melodies, the harmonies, the contrast of loudness and softness, the different sounds each instrument or group of instruments makes and the form. Take notice of changes and similarities. Are some melodies repeated? Are they repeated identically or altered? What other changes do you notice?
6. Keep your focus. It's quite normal for your mind to wander as you attempt to focus completely on the music. When that happens, simply bring your mind back to noticing the melody and the instruments that are playing. Enjoy the contrasts of loudness and softness as they occur in real time. Once you shift your attention back to the music, your internal monologue will quickly vanish.
7. Seek out help! Still wondering what to listen for? Seek out friends of yours who listen to classical for their guidance. Don't have anyone you can ask? You can always visit The Discovery Orchestra's YouTube page and select from any of our short "Discovery Chats" to get started. Happy listening!

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Maestro George Marriner Maull is the Artistic Director of The Discovery Orchestra, a nonprofit music education organization teaching the attentive listening skills that help people of all backgrounds better comprehend, experience and emotionally connect with classical music.

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You Don’t “Find” Your Passion in Life, You Actively Develop It, Explains Psychologist Carol Dweck, Theorist of the “Growth Mindset”

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You Don't "Find" Your Passion in Life, You Actively Develop It, Explains Psychologist Carol Dweck, Theorist of the "Growth Mindset"
// Open Culture

You might spend your whole life trying to find your life's passion, or passively hoping it comes to you. Many have done so and, tragically, have never discovered it. Were they looking for purpose in all the wrong places? Maybe. Or maybe the idea that our life's calling waits out there for us to find—like the fairy tale notion of a one true perfect love—is kind of crap. That's not how Stanford psychologists Carol Dweck and Gregory Walton put it, exactly, but their research suggests that "the adage so commonly advised by graduation speakers," as Stanford News reports, "might undermine how interests actually develop."

In other words, when people think of interests or talents as "fixed qualities that are inherently there," they are more likely to give up on pursuits when they encounter difficulty, believing they aren't destined for success. Working with data acquired by Stanford postdoctoral fellow Paul O'Keefe (now at Yale), Dweck and Walton explained some recent research findings in a paper titled "Implicit Theories of Interest: Finding Your Passion or Developing it?" The article is forthcoming in Psychological Science, and you can read a PDF version online.

The paper describes five studies on "implicit theories of interest" and contrasts a fixed theory with a "growth theory" of interest, an idea that comes out of Dweck's prior research on what she calls a "growth mindset." She has published a bestselling book on the subject and given very popular talks on what she calls in her TED appearance in Sweden above "the power of yet"—a phrase she derives from a high school in Chicago that gave students the grade of "not yet" when they hadn't successfully passed a course. This hopeful assessment encouraged them to keep trying rather than to think of themselves as failures.

Dweck tells her TED audience about giving a group of ten-year-olds' problems she knew would be too hard for them to solve. Those with a "growth mindset" responded with excitement, eager for a challenge and the opportunity to expand their capabilities. The kids who had a "fixed mindset" crumpled, feeling like they had been judged and come up wanting. "Instead of luxuriating in the power of yet," says Dweck, "they were gripped in the tyranny of now." Children thus "tyrannized" by feelings of failure might be more likely to cheat rather than study, make downward comparisons to boost feelings of self-worth, or become avoidant and "run from difficulty."

These strategies are even visible in images of brain activity. None of them, of course, will lead to progress. But Dweck claims that the problem is endemic to a generation of people who need constant validation and who fold when they meet challenges. So how can parents and teachers help kids become more growth-oriented or, in Dweck's lingo, build "the bridge to yet"? Her recommendations may not sound that revolutionary to those who have followed the backlash against the well-meaning but misguided "self-esteem movement" of the past few decades.

For one thing, praising effort, rather than intelligence or talent, will help kids develop more resilience and value ongoing process over instant results. Judicious applications of "good try!" go much farther than repetitions of "you're brilliant and amazing!" Dweck's other strategies involve a similar focus on process and progress. Unsurprisingly, when we believe we can change and improve, we are far more likely to work at developing talent, instead of assuming we've either got it or we don't, an unscientific and self-defeating way of thinking that has done a lot of people needless harm. Dweck and her colleagues show that our life's passion isn't a fully-formed thing out there waiting for us, or an inborn, immutable quality, but rather it comes as the result of patient and persistent efforts.

via Stanford News

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Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. Follow him at @jdmagness

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Kahl Witches

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Kahl Witches
// Deja View

Heritage Auctions recently sold these design sketches by Milt Kahl from the movie The Black Cauldron. I believe that in the original books by Lloyd Alexander the three witches keep exchanging their outfits in order to confuse the group of lead characters.
This story concept isn't easy to get across in just a few drawings, but if anybody might have pulled it off in animation, it's Milt.
Great drawings, though in principle the characters borrow heavily from the designs of Madam Mim as well as Madame Medusa.

You can see a Tim Burton concept sketch of the three Witches here:

https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-witches-of-morva.html

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