Many of the country's most successful people such as Paul Allen, Woody Allen, Chuck Todd, Larry Page, and even Condoleezza Rice connected their musical studies to their success in their careers. They say that music opened up the pathways to creative thinking. Their experiences suggest that music training sharpens qualities like collaboration, such as listening, weaving ideas together, and focusing on the present and the future simultaneously.
Mr. Todd says there is a connection between years of practice and competition and what he call's the "drive for perfection." The big thing about music is that it makes you try harder because you keep practicing. And that practice makes you more likely to double and triple check your work, because of that strive for perfection.
"Consider the qualities these high achievers say music has sharpened: collaboration, creativity, discipline and the capacity to reconcile conflicting ideas. All are qualities notably absent from public life. Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view - and most important, to take pleasure in listening."
Being an aspiring music educator, this article makes me happy. :)
Being an aspiring music educator, this article makes me happy. :)
I think that the skills working with music teaches you are what make a person successful. If music teaches people to always strive to be better and learn more things then yes it is the key to success, because those are the skills that are needed in life to be good at anything.
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