Maturity allows you to see what you can take from your old thing and apply it to your new thing.
And there’s a lot of overlap. More than we often realize.
I’ve had friends decide to leave the music business but get really worried because the music biz is ‘all they know’. It all translates. It all applies.
One of the reasons I started this blog years ago was to help people in the music business see and understand the layers beneath what’s going on so that whether someone is in the business for two weeks or twenty years it’s worthwhile…because the underlying principles and ideas can be applied almost anywhere in our culture.