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Tag: mindset
Feedback: How to Deal With Exposing Your Songs to the Public
Learning how to take criticism and seek out honest feedback does not come naturally to us musicians, here’s how and why it’s important.
Practicing Proactivity
A powerful editorial about how to beat Imposter Syndrome and a lack of confidence by rewriting the rules of your working mental state.
5 Steps for Achieving Your New Years Goals in 2021
A new take on the familiar New Year oriented goals post, encouraging you to analyze the habits that prevent you from achieving them.
How Dreams Can Inspire Your Songwriting
Your dreams offer an evolving well of emotional and narrative depth that can only enhance your creative writing process, here are some tips to help!
Resistance Is Futile: On Letting Creative Flow Happen
Resisting feedback, or change, can be the single biggest mindset obstacle you have to overcome in your songwriting. Don’t let it destroy yours.
Why Musicians Should Learn to Think Like a Chicken Farmer
Probably one of the strangest mental leaps we’ve made here on Flypaper to date, but Caleb Murphy makes a solid argument here. Do you agree?
Building Your Confidence as a Songwriter
Action always invariably beats inaction; here’s a set of tools to help you battle your lacking confidence, and create with active fervor!
The Hard Truth: Mixing Is Lonely
Working with collaborators is the best way to stay accountable to your goals and deadlines, but sometimes you’ve got to go it alone. Here’s some advice.
How to Stay Motivated, Even When You Feel Like the Biggest Sack of Potatoes Ever
Motivating yourself is hard right now — whether your shows are cancelled or your studio sessions remain impossible with social distancing — but we can help.