![]() I’ve always had this idea that I had to make progress is a track while not really having a perspective of time in mind (I.e working on a track for 10 hours and getting frustrated because it’s “not coming along”) but I think sometimes useful to just leave it and think about it away from the computer. If it isn’t, well then it served as a learning lesson in a sense. If it’s really something you love, I think it will still be that way when you revisit it with a fresh mindset which might give you new ideas to progress the track. I’ve ran into this a lot, and something I’m starting to learn is that it’s perfectly okay to leave something and come back to it later. But just focus on chunks at a time, and really minimise how often you listen to the track as a whole. Those bits obviously you will have on loop for a while. When i write I tend to focus on 16-32 bars at a time. Make sure to sprinkle in a little of the boring stuff while you’re creating (basically any labelling, organising, some mixing, side chains etc) that way by the end of a project there’s not a lot to fix. It’s pretty easy to change your arrangement once you have a ton of content, so worry about that later. When you get a good creative flow, squeeze all those juices out of you. I personally tend to abuse the writing stages as much as possible. By the end of the track it’s a huge clusterfuck of ideas. On the flip side, you can also get used to your track and keep infinitely adding stuff to spice it up for yourself. I got so used to hearing it that way that when I made any changes I didn’t like it. I used to put my stuff on soundcloud so I could listen to it at work, half finished tracks. I find once you start entering the stage of just listening to your whole track on loop, instead of making any changes, it’s time to move on.ĭefinitely don’t export it. Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil in 2002 termed, the illusion of explanatory depth (IOED), stating, “Most people feel they understand the world with far greater detail, coherence, and depth than they really do.Discipline my friend! This is exactly the thing that kills the momentum of a track. ![]() We need to start by accepting that none of us ‘know it all’ and that progress is achieved when we better understand the other. If we are going to co-create real social change we need to value that we all bring our own expertise and we need each other to progress. In my experience, this is the time when I have most experienced the difficulty of a diverse range of people from different organisations trying to reach agreement without fully listening to understand the other. Where there is a need to agree a multi-agency plan which is directed by statutory agencies, this power dynamic is most visible. A recurring experience voiced during this discussion focused upon the many forums staff find themselves in where there is a real need to acknowledge the power dynamics within multi-agency forums, especially at a strategic level, where there are both public and voluntary sectors present. ![]() We had been discussing the issue of social change leadership and how we (MVDA) could focus some work on better influencing social change, utilising the expertise, knowledge, understanding, information and perspective of Middlesbrough’s VCS. This got me thinking about a team discussion we had had at MVDA following one of our ‘thought leadership’ team meetings and the great little doodle you see above that captures some of that discussion. Who has it, how it is defined and who decides on the value of it in the context of ‘doing things differently’?Ī recurring theme from my discussions with leaders, especially those that are responding to some very difficult issues, was around the feeling of not really being understood or valued as experts by those asking them what they think. Last weeks’ meetings with some VCOs, doing amazing work with people with a range of vulnerabilities and complex needs, left me pondering the whole issue of knowledge, information, understanding and perspective. It is in this environment that many of Middlesbrough's VCOs are willing to share their challenges and frustrations. I’m always inspired by what people are doing, often in some of the most challenging circumstances, and this really stirs up my curiosity to really understand what life is like on a day-to-day level for the organisations we work with and the people they support. I love the ‘cuppa and a natter’ approach and how we get to some really deep issues in the context of a ‘thinking out loud’ discussion. One of the best parts of working at MVDA is getting to meet lots of great people passionate about making life better for Middlesbrough’s people.
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