There is an observable difference in brain activity between playing an instrument and actively listening: https://youtu.be/R0JKCYZ8hng
The activity of playing is unlike other skills based learning, including other arts. All this is in the video.
It’s the intersection of applying ephemeral knowledge (music theory, intuition for what sounds good) and active muscle memory building.
Personally, since picking up guitar and piano during lockdown, I’ve definitely noticed I’m faster at pattern recognition, more readily see simpler solutions to logic problems, and can find focus and flow with less effort. I did play saxophone from 5th grade on, but quit after HS; I was playing music before that too. The years in between just feel colorless and uninspired.
Will it make one Einstein? No. But it definitely brings a cognitive perspective, sense of self awareness and agency, nuanced inner monologue, that’s missing in its absence.
I don’t get uptight about proper music theory and all that. I just pluck my way into patterns that sound cool to me, build fluency playing them. It’s more like deep work than desire to succeed; I’ve tried meditating, yoga, etc, over years and nothing brings inner peace and sense of self like playing music.
The solution to high prices is stop using monopolized nation state currency being “loaned out” to us by banks.
Remove useless middle men whose role is to “generate value” by charging fees to move money.
Money is moved via electrons in machines now. Moving real money is environmentally expensive and let’s grifters nickel and dime for merely acting as custodian for a moment.
There are a lot of options and we didn’t save horse and buggy when cars came along; screw the bankers.
Damn; and I felt gaudy with my phone, personal desktop, single smart speaker and laptop through work being my only gadgets at home.
How much money would be saved if we didn’t fetishize owning a bunch of stuff that idly costs more money? How much electricity, since that matters in real terms to me more than your finances.
Blockchain development is funded by VCs looking to stay relevant.
It’s software; there’s no panacea and thousands of options for solving problems; blockchain is just one.