You know whoโs full of shit? Stupid singer-songwriters who say, โIโm just going to go up there and be myself.โ Theyโre full of shit
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Songwriting has to be 100% personal. Itโs walking out onstage. Itโs taking a photo, choosing an album title. All that you have to have in mind. It canโt be personal any more. It has to be fantastical, which is still personal. Itโs the part of your personality that is a fantasy, that has toโฆ Thatโs the part that carries the football into the end zone of the audience, but when youโre like, planning the music, of course it has to be one hundred percent personal. I never think about whoโs listening when Iโm composing. That moment is strictly reserved for you and yourself one hundred percent.
For me this same challenge is present in the lecture paradox.
I remember doing a conference presentation a few years ago in which I received scathing feedback. What I realised in hindsight is that I had put far too much effort into the content and failed to provide enough consideration to pedagogy and presentation.