Once The Jazz Musician Learns

We Have The Ability To Create Choice By Altering Our Interpretations Of The World.

So Most Of The Time When We Are Confronted By More, Rather Than A Few, Choices We're Often Novices And So We Don't Really Know How To Differentiate These Various Options.

It's Easy To Assume People Are Conforming When We Witness Them All Choosing The Same Option, But When We Choose That Very Option Ourselves, We Have No Shortage Of Perfectly Good Reasons For Why We Just Happen To Be Doing The Same Thing As Those Other People; They Mindlessly Conform, But We Mindfully Choose. This Doesn't Mean That We're All Conformists In Denial. It Means That We Regularly Fail To Recognize That Others' Thoughts And Behaviors Are Just As Complex And Varied As Our Own. Rather Than Being Alone In A Crowd Of Sheep, We're All Individuals In Sheep's Clothing.

In Order To 'hold Fast' To Something, One Must Allow Oneself To Be Held To Something. That Commitment May Be One Of The Hardest Things To Practice In A World Of So Much Choice.

I Mean We Know That Some Choice Makes You Better Off Than No Choice. Now Do We Get Better Off If We Go From A Lot Of Choice Versus A Few Choices? And There I Think The Answer Is Much, Much, Much More Complicated.