Fixed Mindset

Imagine a River, a single point of consciousness as a droplet of water in an endless current, Now imagine a fixed mindset where you had to fight the flow and swim back upstream. how much energy would that take?  When success is seen as a fixed point rather than a continuous process, growth can become rigid and restricted. However, by expanding our ways of thinking to remain flexible, we can approach life as a game with a direction rather than a destination. Think of it as using a compass instead of coordinates on a GPS. This allows for creativity, flexibility, and enjoyment of the experience over the enjoyment from the achievement of the end result alone.

Imagine you're a trailblazer charting a course into uncharted territory. You know the general direction you want to move in and start heading that way. Along the journey, you might encounter an animal trail, a paved highway, or a dense jungle. Regardless of the path you find, you continue moving in your chosen direction, adapting as necessary. The journey's challenges and unpredictability make it unique and rewarding—if it were easy, everyone would do it.

Let's explore some ideas around "what holds us back" where it relates to our pursuits as creatives. for example, let's say you're a recording artist and your mix has some issues leaving you telling yourself 'i suck, i'll never be good enough.' It's likely not a matter of the quality of your gear, which DAW, or which plugins you're using, a common misconception - 'if i just upgrade this or that, then i'll be better at ____ - but let's dig deeper, what's at the root to prevents success?

Let's talk about limiting beliefs.

We can address limiting beliefs through the shifting of mindset, sounds simple right? Easy in-Principle but Difficult in-Practice. How can one unlock his/her full potential? How does one overcome obstacles, to pursue dreams with confidence, with resilience, with passion? Results dont happen immediately but the development of this internal-skill through the training of ones mind can be key to breaking free of negative cycles and achieving better results faster.

​How does one Practice Wholeness in a world divided? What does it mean to be a "whole" self, of healthy mind and capable of making healthy decisions? As children in the developmental stages of life, the world is a place full of new things to discover, and as the child may seek to discover the nature of this world,  seeks to become a part of it, one might note the abundance of questions asked by the child. Questions like why. As the child grows into 'adulthood' however, the inquisitive nature of life is forgotten. Why?

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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ”

― Albert Einstein

This is a guest post by Levente

For one, devoting your life to any kind of art is not only honourable and good, but it is also very natural

Like the more time I spend creating and playing music, the more that’s all I want to do

Sometimes I get annoyed when Soso or  or Lablah the bandees want to smoke weed for like 45 minutes when my brain is wanting to be submerged in playing music

And that’s a voluntary activity

But it takes away from what’s pulling my very existence

On the other, life is here for the living and though there are so many facets of songwriting that you could indeed spend every waking moment on it and never run out of things to improve and create.

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If you don’t take the time to live life, and enjoy some of it, take in art whether it be in games, TV, film, books, or anything else, you deny yourself the possibility of any of those things expanding your creative mind and leading you to places you wouldn’t have gone otherwise


Not to mention receiving art into your mind is a way of connecting with all the humans who made it, and therefor gives you practice at connecting with humans, seeing how other artists do it, and draw your own conclusions there.

I’d argue that a great portion of art creation is sharing existence with other humans. You think the composers of yore didn’t have hobbies on the side?

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