Re Human Day 125
We are what we repeatedly do. I’m re-inventing myself by improving in 15 areas at a time.
This post is part of my Re Human project.
Daily Habits
Books: Listened to The Master Switch. Started The Diamond Age on my Kindle. Started listening to Mere Christianity, per a strong recommendation by a friend. Some notes from today:
Humans have this thought that they ought to behave a certain way.
They do not behave in that way.
Meditation: did 20minutes in the afternoon.
Digital Drawing: Finished drawing the Gal Shir Melody video!
Re Human Extended Activity: On Saturdays I’m a Music Producer.
Tried making some songs snippets with just instruments.
Then I searched “how to create a song” on youtube and clicked on a couple of the most popular videos that showed up. Watched this one about “top 10 tips”, this one about “how to make a #1 song without talent” (wild how by using a couple of services it actually is pretty easy to make a song that sounds good).
Then this one about a guy trying to make a hit song in 58 minutes (these ones are super fun + suspenseful). Then this one about a musician explaining harmony at 5 levels of difficulty.
Then this one on “easy way to write an original song in 12 minutes!”, where I found this cool website chordschords.com that generates chord progressions. Then I watched the website’s video on how to use it. The website doesn’t have MIDI downloads so I played the chords on my piano keyboard and they sound pretty cool!!!
Writing: This post and work on my 2018 recap post — almost done— will probably post tomorrow. daily thoughts.
Piano: Today I practiced comptine d’un autre été.
Fitness: Today I started with hand-stand push-ups. Then did as many pull-ups in a row as I could (46). Then did Tabata training for jumping squats (20 seconds of all-out exercise, 10 seconds of rest, 8 times) — always such hard 4 minutes. Then some chest.
Soccer trick juggling: Practiced the hop the world trick and around the world.
Random Surprise
Great 1minute video:
Read the previous post.
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