Reddit reviews Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness
We found 1 Reddit comments about Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Used Book in Good Condition
Get yourself a headset. Make all the music you want, you won't bother anyone. Great investment. headset.
$660 is a lot of money, over the course of a lifetime, it's peanuts. Also, if your parents see that you're actually working hard to make things work out, unless they need that money, maybe they'll just 'forget' about it.
If music is your passion, and it is a great passion!, then make your life about music. Give yourself to that experience. You don't know what it will do for you. Be honest with yourself. If you have talent and perseverance you -will- have a measure of success. If you really don't have the talent and it sounds crap, be honest with yourself. You should always listen to your stuff and ask yourself: would I listen to this myself if it was on the radio? It's super easy to do and you want to be honest with yourself.
Music is your thing. Live your thing. Wait for nothing, wait for nobody. Don't wait 'until the time is right'. The time will never be right, there will always be different bullshit to deal with. All your life. Trust me when I say this.
Don't get tempted into smoking, get her out of smoking. It's bad for you, it's hugely expensive and getting sick from smoking is -really- expensive, and fucking painful to boot [I've seen it, I'm not touching smokes with a 10 foot pole].
You're young. You're entitled to making mistakes. That's how life teaches you not to be a dumbass. It's about not making the same mistake twice. Or too many times.
One mistake you cannot make is: not working on your passion. It needs constant nourishment, in view of negative feedback, bad reviews, off-days, bills to pay. Mind the budget, it's super important. Use a balanced budget to allow yourself to be successful and thrive at what you're good at.
Don't go into debt if you don't have to. You'll need equipment. Buy -good- equipment. Buy it once, take really good care of it, it will last you many years.
Other tchotchkes... you can do without. You're not here to show the world that you can buy 'one' too. Not having debt, as $660 dollars proves you, is a much -much- better life than having debt you have to service for years. There are things you want to spend good money on, there are things you don't want to bother with.
You don't need most of what you see people buying. You really don't.
You want to play music. Play music. Find your passion. Allow yourself to be lost in the experience, that all by itself is a far better drug than anything you can buy off the street. There is, IMHO, almost no better medium to achieve that state than music is.
Give yourself to music. Music will pay you back. In joy, in recognition, in opportunities, in legacy, in oeuvre, in doors opening, in admiration, in money. It's -real-, it's something you can work at. It's something that will work for you.
-YOU- have to do the heavy lifting, but it's a journey worth going on. You're not losing yourself to despair. You're not giving some anonymous body the means that would have bought you a better life for questionable moments of 'relief' from the real world.
The real world is there to be explored in all its harshness and beauty. Not with a dull mind, but with a mind that is open to the experiences, the impression and the expression of what it is you feel deep inside that you want to communicate.
Taking drugs is like excessively obsessing over a picture of a candle while making music is the very incandescent light of the sun itself.
Don't live a second-rate life, live a good life!
"So, /u/youngslut_, what made you look at your life in a different way when you felt so depressed earlier in life?"
"Obviously, that must have been some good advice."
/Make music, make your heart sing, touch our souls, have a happy life!