“Hutchinson’s Law: Any occurrence requiring undivided attention will be accompanied by a compelling distraction.”
– Robert Bloch
Mrs. Tarantino: “Are you the police?”
Elwood Blues: “No, ma’am. We’re musicians.”
– Dialogue from the Blues Brothers Movie, circa 1980, and still the best movie ever made
Difference makers know that we’re not the police, we’re musicians. (Don’t worry, I’ll button it down a little better…)
Sometimes, though, when we find ourselves in a world full of distractions, and surrounded by people hell-bent on being distracting or providing distraction, we want to believe that we can fix the whole thing at once. Well, we can’t. We’re not the police. We’re the musicians, and that means we gots to focus on da music. The guy in the back, talking too loudly during the long pause in the cool song? Just play through it.
So, as we focus on “the music” it’s important to remember that the songs we play are simple.
There are only seven notes (unless we wanna get all wrapped around the axle on flats and sharps and the like), so when it starts getting too complicated, maybe a little “chopsticks” is all we need to get our focus back. To know our role. And to leverage it to make a difference.
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