Fifty years ago........................

 

Any Major Dude With Half a Heart offers his 20 major albums from 1976.

It would overstate things to say that 1976 was a great year for music, the release of a few absolute classics notwithstanding, but it was a satisfying year. 

Sippican Cottage's......................

 

..........................reading list for kids of all ages.

To counter.......................

 

.......................................perfectionism:

1. Mistakes don’t make you a failure. They make you a learner.

2. Achievements are not a symbol of your worth. They’re a snapshot of your performance.

3. Beating yourself up doesn’t make you stronger; it leaves you bruised. Don’t say anything to yourself that you wouldn’t say to a good friend.

4. It’s impossible to please everyone. Decide whose opinion matters to you—and whose doesn’t.

5. Character is not revealed by how many setbacks you face. It’s forged by how you face them.

6. People gauge your competence mostly by your hits, not your misses.

7. The objective is not to be the best; it’s to get better. The person you’re competing with is your past self, and the bar you’re setting is for your future self.

8. Our biggest regrets aren’t actions—they’re inactions. Don’t set yourself up to wish you’d taken more chances.

9. Healthy goals include two targets: an aspirational result and an acceptable outcome. If you fall anywhere between them, you haven’t failed.

10. Success is not a straight line. It’s a squiggly line.

Any Major Dude With Half a Heart...........

 

.................celebrates the World Cup by offering 48 songs, one from each of the countries playing in the on-going tournament.

Fifty ways...........................

 

.................................................to live deeply.

Kurt Harden...............

 

...................................the King of the Playlist.

Chris Lynch.............

 

........is on a rules and habits kick.  Scroll and enjoy.

Age differences................

 

Ray Visotski takes us for a walk down his musical memory lane.  He must be a youngster: no Motown, no Beach Boys, no girl groups, no British Invasion tunes.  Those were the days my friend.

So many books........................

 

.............................................so little time.

Beach reading.....................

 

Michael Wade's eclectic, but watery, list is here.  Barnes & Noble will be hearing from me shortly.

the complex interplay.................

 

The brain is the most complex biological assembly we know of.  Its 80 billion neurons—nerve cells—communicate with each other to make trillions of connections, more that the number of particles in the known universe.  These connections give rise to the sum of our experiences:  all of our thoughts, desires, and beliefs; our emotions, changing moods, memory, even our heart rate and the contents of our dreams.  How does this funny-looking, folded-in-on-itself, three-pound tangle of wires and blood vessels do all this, as well as orchestrate the complex interplay between emotion, memory, sound and healing that comes from music?  And how does it allow us to remember music that we like, make playlists, and party likes it 1999?

-Daniel J. Levitin,  I Heard There Was A Secret Chord:  Music as Medicine

the critical path...............

 

This is why the discipline of asking “what is actually blocking me?” outperforms many productivity systems on the market.

Lists treat tasks as equals. The critical path treats them as a queue with one true bottleneck at the front.

Identify it. Work on it. Everything else, however satisfying, is decoration on a foundation that may not yet exist.

-Nicholas Bate

Any Major Dude With Half A Heart.............

......................................offers us a Good Morning.

I have wanted more......................

 

..............more than a few of the things on this list.

via

A (wait for it) sleeping aid...............

 

...........................................that never fails.

Ten rules........................

 

.......................for dealing with uncertainty:

9. If all else fails, simplify. Einstein supposedly said the five levels of intelligence are smart, intelligent, brilliant, genius and simple.

As the world gets more complex you have to fight harder to keep things simple.

The solution to complexity is not more complexity. It’s simplicity.

21............................

 

.....................................tiny lessons:

7.  What you refuse to do matters more than what you do.

8. The best ideas don’t come from headquarters. They come from people close to the problem.

9. Leverage comes from being willing to walk away.

Cultural Offering.................

 

..............introduces us to John Dabell and his 200 reasons:

121.  I’m not here to rush healing, I’m here to honour it.

122. I’m not here to be untouched, I’m here to be unbroken.

123. I’m not here to wait for hope, I’m here to practice it daily.

Think I have mastered #37

Thanks Kurt

Any Major Dude with Half A Heart.....

 

......................................................tackles 1986.

Got me.................

 

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