Welcome to Litsy!

My version is dated but still has good points. Central idea is that Self 1 is critical and clutters the mind with information that distracts from creating music; so encourage Self 2 with its experience, creativity, and innate ability to take over. Like many self-help books this gets repetitive, but it‘s deliberate. Some good ideas in a chapter about being the parent or teacher, too.

Opened this up for a reread (18 years later), and this surprised me. I have absolutely no recollection of ever meeting this author, but it seems he came to my college the year before I graduated. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I remember this book being a big deal to me at that time, but…I mean, there was a lot going on around then but…no memory at all. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I‘m trying to bail more rather than suffering. Could have been a pamphlet.

Some good insight & some lines I even copied into one of my notebooks, but generally after the intro and first chapter it‘s not inspiring. I like the concept of Interference & Self 1 / Self 2 but it‘s repetitive and not for me at least at this stage in my music life.
Overall: Awareness, focus on one goal at a time, don‘t listen to the inner (self 1/Interference) voice.