Success, Hitting the High Notes and the Art of Being Unreasonable

“You don’t get harmony when everyone sings the same notes“, Doug Floyd once said.

Indeed, just try to imagine 40 people belting out the same high note – it would completely miss the point of an artistic representation.

Instead, these people should be hitting the high notes only when it makes sense. When the piece requires certain accents.

Which got me thinking success is just like a musical sheet – without variation, you can’t deliver a successful outcome. The more variation (dissonance included) you explore, the more and innovative your piece will be.

But for that to happen, there’s one quality you have to cultivate: the ability to stray away from what’s established, from what lays ahead on the beaten track. In other words, the art of being a dissenter and skipping the straightforward in favour of the ...(click here for whole article)