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I ask people for feedback about my music and then when they point out an area where they see room for improvement, it really stings. There is an initial queasy feeling. I don't even know how to totally break it down into components. It is part embarrassment (I guess because I sent them something flawed and I'm supposed to be perfect :dunno:) Sometimes I know right away the feedback is correct and so there may be frustration/disappointment because I have spent a lot of time on something and now I am going to have to do it all over. There is even more to it than that though. It is a complex sting.

I know about the sting and I brace myself for it intellectually - but it still comes.

Then there is a gradual process of integrating the feedback into my psyche and deciding if it has merit and - if it does - (and it does more often than not) - ultimately realizing that I have just learned something very valuable and my project has just gotten better.

This seeking of feedback is something I absolutely must do - not just with music but with many things - but man.
 
GF - You wanna go see a Broadway show about the making-of of RENT?




Me -
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GF - I'll ask the girls.
 
I find it slightly odd how my brain works sometimes. Not sure if this is a universal experience or not. Probably.

If there is something I want to remember, I am a lot more likely to remember it if I say it out loud.

Like maybe I am creating a computer file which I want to be numbered consecutively from some existing files. So I look at those files and see that my new file will need to be A49 (or whatever). But there are a few set-up steps to be taken first so it will be half a minute before I actually apply that name.

If I just try to remember, there is a fair chance I will end up having to go back and double-check what my number is supposed to be.

But if I actually say it out loud, I'm a lot more likely to remember it.

It's like it echoes through the ether or something.
 
Mudcat
I find it slightly odd how my brain works sometimes. Not sure if this is a universal experience or not. Probably.

If there is something I want to remember, I am a lot more likely to remember it if I say it out loud.

Like maybe I am creating a computer file which I want to be numbered consecutively from some existing files. So I look at those files and see that my new file will need to be A49 (or whatever). But there are a few set-up steps to be taken first so it will be half a minute before I actually apply that name.

If I just try to remember, there is a fair chance I will end up having to go back and double-check what my number is supposed to be.

But if I actually say it out loud, I'm a lot more likely to remember it.

It's like it echoes through the ether or something.
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Hmm. I repeat them in my head. I definitely don't say them out loud though.

But maybe that's just because I've become accustomed to doing it that way. I'm often working with lists of numbers...
 
RayRay
i used to remember facts/definitions etc. for school tests by saying them out loud once or twice...man am i ever glad that shit is over with :whew:
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I remember how to multiply because my punishment in middle school was having to write pages of multiplication (from 1X1 to 12 X 12) tables after school for being a smartass during class.

I spent a fair amount of time in after school "detention".
 
I caught the commissioner of our office pick 'em pool cheating. And I called him out on it with a thread that was emailed to every player.

Turns out that the commish of a CBS Sports Pick 'Em has superpowers - they can switch their picks mid-game. He's done it 3 times over the last 2 weeks.

Shit is gonna hit the fan boys. A couple of VP's are playing with us, including his own. I don't think he's gonna be fired or anything, but at the same time, what he did is plain fraud/theft.

People are dumb.
 
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