Joseph Maynor

I appreciate all of you.

Your voice is all you have. Embrace it!

You're right. One of the things I always hated about working on Jazz is the idea of playing like someone else or copying someone else. I love to play Jazz but I have always insisted on doing it the way I want to do it. This is how you develop your own voice.

Maybe you're not doing it right.

This is in part very true.

What does deep creativity mean? Let's get clear about this.

Whaaat?

You can establish boundaries energetically and through behavior without having to say anything, at least at first. If he doesn't get it, then you may have to start to say.

When someone tells me there is no, I think to myself there is yes.

To be fair I will watch them all and then revise my opinion. I really like the first one. It is campy, but that is part of what I like about it.

I saw The Phantom Menace in the theater when it came out and didn't like it. Ditto for Attack of the Clones.

Love is relational intelligence.

I only like the first 3 Star Wars movies.

It is best to find the idea through direct experience. Find something you want to do more of. Then do a lot of that work. The idea will come after that because you will see that now you want to do this work and it comes easy to you. Starting with the idea is kind of a trap because the idea really only summarizes a process that is lived.

This is a great book. "The Consequences of Modernity" by Anthony Giddens. Well worth reading. I'm reading it again.

Paradoxically the way to take a lot of action in an area is to take a lot of action in that area. I discovered this key to industriousness. It is almost like a ball that has momentum moves forward with less effort.