Senior Shares His Secrets to Staying Productive
Complacency simply doesn’t work well with productivity. So what would Senior, musician, offer as advice in this case? Staying hungry is a great way to avoid complacency.
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Just a couple of decades ago, becoming a musical artist and publishing an album was much harder than it is now. Back then, everything from practicing to having access to instruments and studio time required plenty of resources, including money, time, and help from other musicians. Today, however, people only need their laptops to produce amazing music and put it out into the world so that everyone can hear it.
With the barrier to entry lowered, the artists who find success are the ones with the right combination of talent and tenacity. Senior, a musician from Canada who’s becoming increasingly popular online, would add another thing to the list of requirements for a successful recording career: staying productive. Here are some of the secrets Senior, musician, uses to stay productive.
Cultivate the Appetite
When someone is the new artist on the block, they have a certain level of hunger that propels them forward. They can be hungry for fame, money, or critical recognition and praise. It doesn’t matter, as long as they have that itch they’ll always try to scratch by creating new music.
However, when they reach a certain level and they stop feeling that itch, it’s all too easy for artists to relax and become lazy. Having reached the top, or even done as little as moved up from the bottom, artists might think they’ve arrived and that they’re due all the adoration and appreciation in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth, though.
To stay ahead of the game, artists have to constantly be innovating, reinventing themselves, and finding new ways of expression to add to their toolbox. Complacency simply doesn’t work well with productivity. So what would Senior, musician, offer as advice in this case? Staying hungry is a great way to avoid complacency.
It doesn’t have to be a hunger for material things, though. People can do many things to make sure their appetite is alive and well and that there are still goals left to be conquered. For Senior, it’s about delivering one album per year, a commitment he made to his fans early on in his career. It’s also about expanding his musical style to reflect how he’s evolving as a human being. All of it helps him stay hungry for the work of a musical artist.
Remember That Everything Is Material
Having taken care of motivation by stoking the fires of hunger, productivity-minded artists need to ensure that there’s enough material to be transferred into music. Some might call it inspiration instead of material, but they pretty much boil down to the same thing: something to write about.
For Senior, musician, it’s easy enough. He sees his life, his thoughts, and his relationships with people as an unending source of material. For anyone who still struggles, however, or thinks that their life isn’t interesting enough to be written about, he’d advise simply opening their eyes and their ears and soaking up everything that’s around them. Everything can be material.
Sure, some things might require more processing, to remove them from specific situations, for example. Others might require coming up with a novel approach to talk about something pretty mundane. Still, for anyone living today and worrying about staying productive as a musician, there’s no reason to see a lack of material as a hindrance when there’s so much happening around them.
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