Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress. I recently read Atomic Habits by James Clear. It’s a fantastic book about building good habits and systems in order to make progress and achieve your goals.
Goals are great, but simply having a goal doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. Without a system in place, goals are only dreams. For example, you might have a goal of winning first chair in your band. That’s a great goal. But, without a system of practicing every day, you’re probably not going to achieve it (unless you’re the only bassoonist in your band, which is a very real possibility.) Furthermore, you need the good habits of putting your bassoon together every day and making a practice plan in order to have a good system.
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In 1931, Shinichi Suzuki was struck by the realization that all Japanese children speak Japanese and that even the children of Osaka easily learn to speak the difficult Osaka dialect. He realized that “any child is able to display superior abilities if only the correct methods are used in training.”[1] From this realization he created his enormously successful Talent Education Method for violin, commonly known as The Suzuki Method. The Suzuki Method is now also used frequently with flute, piano, cello, and double bass.
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