The saga continues: AM 6

[mat422]

Thinking I might run MLS after DMSI. I was doing some music production research the other day and I stumbled upon a guy online with massive amounts of knowledge and experience. At first I was really intimidated and upset because I felt like what I knew in comparison was nothing. But then I realized it was an opportunity to learn even more. Then I realized something else. I think full knowledge and mastery of something has become somewhat of a lost art. Nowadays we get a whole bunch of watered down information, short snippets here and there, and bad information gets parroted around. I'm guilty of it. My attention span is very short, I just want immediate results, I dabble in things here and there but never truly commit to learning things inside and out. I think part of it is fear and ego. It feels good to know that I have knowledge of something and sometimes introducing more learning is intimidating and makes me feel like I truly don't know anything at all. I see this a lot with people that talk about stuff they have no business talking about because they hit your with those surface level facts, but if you dig deeper there's no substance. I've done it, I try my best not to. Hell for years I refused to learn music theory under the mistaken idea it would kill creativity, but because I never actually tried to learn it I had no business stating that as a fact.

I know this is largely a consequence of our technology and all the distractions we have now. Our brains can't focus for long periods of time. I absolutely hate it because it leads you to believe you're gathering a whole bunch of information and becoming more knowledgeable, but the reality is there's not enough depth there.