I was at a show this weekend at an old bank that had been converted into a venue. One of those banks the size of Grand Central Station, beautiful marble floors and massive columns…probably built sixty or seventy years ago when everyone had to actually go to the bank.
Downstairs there was a bank vault door. It looked like a door out of Mission Impossible. A giant round door, five feet high and it was open so we could see it was two feet thick.
Two feet thick! It seems like that would have been a great place to keep the money, behind two feet of solid metal.
It was a very cool, very intimidating door.
So in order to have broken into the vault, you would have had to get good at chiseling your way through two feet of metal. If you wanted to break through and obtain the riches behind the door, your adversary was a door that was impossible to break through.
You would have had to hammer and saw and scrape your way through the door…
Or…
You could find the combination.
See…now you’re not fighting two feet of metal any more, but working to discover the sequential numbers that will completely negate the impossible strength of the metal door.
If you have the combination, the door is meaningless.
If all you’re focused on is the door, it retains ultimate power.
We’re now in an era in the music business where there’s a doorman next to the door handing out combination codes to the ones willing to take their focus away from the door.
I can’t tell you what’s waiting in the vault for you, but I know you find out what’s behind that door.
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