There’s the obvious bad habits like drugs or yelling at people…but then there are other bad habits that hold you back in significant, but quieter, ways…
-Blaming the mix engineer for your songs not being amazing…It’s not surprising how much more you’ll love your mix engineer if you are confident in your songs.
-Waiting to put a set list together until just before the show...You travelled all that way and really want the show to be good and there’s a ton of expenses and there’s a live stream happening…this is a bad time to wing it.
-Talking about fixing problems…Don’t confuse talking with fixing. Sometimes they overlap but a lot of the time the talking simply feels good and therefore feels significant and that feels like a huge achievement in and of itself. So we relax and never actually change anything.
The obvious bad habits are incredibly burdensome but at least they’re not hidden.
The subtle bad habits can live on for decades without anyone recognizing them as bad habits…while the constraint is ever present.
