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7PS: Go play baseball βΎ
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Read time: 1 minute, 285 words. At seven years old, Yo-Yo Ma performed for Pablo Casals, one of history's greatest cellists. Ma was already a prodigy. His days revolved around lessons, rehearsals, and practice. Casals listened carefully. Then he offered surprising advice. Go play baseball. Not another scale. Not another hour with the cello. Baseball. Ma later understood the message: Live a full life. Because mastering your craft is only half the work. You also need a life worth expressing. ππΎ Read the story.βββ ββ-Kabir Seven Point Sunday - October 4 β‘οΈ Productivity βAragon - Get professional headshots in minutes leveraging AI. π° Wealth βBabyquip β Rent out strollers, cribs, & other baby essentials to traveling families. β βThe Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Guide to mindfulness and personal transformation, this book teaches you how to embrace the present moment, overcome anxiety, and cultivate inner peace. β Listen to Down Every Road 1962-1994 by Merle Haggard. Essential 4-disc anthology, showcasing his journey through honky-tonk, outlaw country, & heartfelt storytelling. Favorites include "Mama Tried" & "Okie from Muskogee." Create a roadmap for developing and launching my new album. Think about milestones like songwriting, recording, marketing, and distribution. How can AI tools assist in content creation, social media promotion, and reaching new audiences? Provide a structured timeline with key action steps. β βHow I make a beatβ β β
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Seven Point Sundayπ‘by Kabir Sehgal
I help you build your portfolio career. Get 7 actionable ideas on Sundays. From a Multi-Grammy & Multi-Emmy Winner, New York Times bestselling author (21 books), ex-J.P. Morgan banker, Navy Vet. Join 10k readers.
Read time: 1 minute, 301 words. The best genres shouldn't quite make sense. A few years ago, I visited Mehmet Ali SanlΔ±kolβs basement studio outside Boston. Charlie Parker on one wall. Turkish masters on another. Handmade instruments everywhere. This is where Turkish Hipster took shape. Turkish makam. Brazilian percussion. Hip-hop. β70s rock. Big-band jazz. You don't invent a genre by starting from scratch. You invent one by combining things that have never had a reason to meet...
Read time: 1 minute, 359 words. There's a musical illusion that makes it sound like a note is rising forever. Itβs called a Shepard tone. It works by layering the same pitch pattern across several octaves. As the higher tones fade out, lower ones quietly fade in, so your ear hears continuous ascent even though the sound is actually looping. Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer used the idea in Dunkirk to create a feeling of constant escalation. And Nolan built that same sense of mounting...
Read time: 1 minute, 375 words. Creative work rarely starts full-time. It starts in the margins. Anthony Trollope was a Post Office civil servant who rose early to write before work, measuring his output in 15-minute blocks. Walker Evans took night jobs so he could photograph during the day, then worked for the government documenting Depression-era America. Raymond Chandler spent years as an oil-company executive before losing his job at 44 and turning seriously to detective fiction. Three...