Perhaps it’s the loneliness and isolation. Perhaps it’s the endless fear and uncertainty about the future. The air is thin and it can feel surprisingly exhausting to make even an inch of progress. But there is something about modern life that’s like trying to hike at high altitude. There is no cadence, only grinding effort. But these days many of us are pushing harder and harder all the time. There are times to push hard and times to rest and recuperate. So learn to let go, get out of your head and surrender to your art.īecause mastery isn’t just for the masters, it’s for all of us.There is an ebb and flow to life. And you already have everything that you need to find it. Kenny’s conclusion? The secret to mastery is already inside you. Meditation #4: One Final Meditation – Short relaxation, surrender and affirmation.The Spiritual (Reprise) – Surrendering and understanding that doing so is the greatest practice of all.Stretching The Form – Being patient and persistent, detaching from results and enjoying changes in the rest of your life.Meditation #3: I Am Great, I Am A Master – Affirmation.An Afterthought – Having patience “ Meeting with triumph and disaster” and “ treating those imposters just the same“.Step 4 – Combining all the steps and learning to familiarise yourself with new ideas by trying less.Step 3 – Staying out of the way and letting the music play itself, even if that feels like taking a few steps backwards.Step 2 – Using unrestricted improvisation to let go of control and observing the results without judgement.Step 1 – Relaxing and surrendering the need to sound good tips on an instrument by instrument basis.The Steps To Change – Changing yourself through practice an overview of the 4 steps.Affirmations – Reprogramming belief systems by using regular affirmation to create new habits of thought.Meditation #2 – Visualisation and affirmation: I am a master.Effortless Mastery – Exploring mastery starting with persistent practice and ending with total, organic and effortless acceptance of whatever wants to come out.Meditation #1 – Relaxation, surrender, visualisation, affirmation: “ I am perfect.
There Are No Wrong Notes – Letting go of intellect, disregarding dissonance and consonance and giving yourself permission to find beauty in “flaws”.The Space – Discovering unlimited creativity and expansiveness of mind in total selflessness and absolute concentration (see Flow).Fear-Based Composing – Releasing perfectionism, accepting whatever comes out and remembering that “the first draft of anything is shit” – Hemingway.Fear-Based Listening – Perceiving more, learning better and reconnecting with joy by learning to listen, without ego or judgment.Fear-Based Teaching – As above but in supporting the progress of others good teaching starts with self-knowledge and love.Fear-Based Practicing – Understanding the impact of mindfulness, patience and trust on both quantity and quality of practice.Fear-Based Playing – Exploring how the mind and fear in hold back playing and how self-love and mindfulness unlock it.Beyond Limited Goals – Rediscovering freedom by letting go of striving (toward goals, away from failure) and surrendering to now.Why Do We Play? – Disconnecting the ego and self-worth reconnecting with joy, passion and higher meaning.My story – The author’s journey from fear and self-loathing to realising he was enough, just as he is.Introduction – Transcending the self and glimpsing mastery.How? Werner addresses precisely this problem over 25 chapters: And to do so, you must turn learning on top of its head. Why? Because there’s a point where progress isn’t about playing better, it’s about playing more organically. It’s to get out of your mind it’s to let go of the idea of progress entirely. NOTES: We are constantly reminded that only way to improve is to try harder that all that stands between us and mastery is grit, persistence and effort.īut there’s another side to the story there are plateaus in every learning journey that brute force and determination just won’t seem to crack.Īnd the secret, explains Werner in Effortless Mastery, isn’t to try more, it’s to try less. SYNTHESIS: An inspirational and practical guide for advanced and expert practitioners in any field on finding mastery by getting out of your head and surrendering to your art – by jazz pianist and composer, Kenny Werner. TYPE: Non-fiction (philosophy), practical. The Art of Living will never share your email.
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