Learning music doesn’t just doesn’t just make you a musician, it actually builds bravery.
Music and particularly performing music, lives in the same part of your brain where you recognize your own nakedness.
Every time someone performs, they are presenting to the audience – this is what I made, this is a piece of who I am.
That’s scary.
And bravery is doing something while you are afraid of doing it.
Every time that you do something that you are afraid of doing, every time you do something bravely, it actually rewires your self concept, what you think about yourself.
Neural pathways get built that tell ourselves I can do difficult things and I can do it in front of people.
What is so amazing is that neural pathway that has been built doesn’t stay in music.
It shows up in job interviews, it shows up when you volunteer in the community, it shows up when you stand up to a bully.
There are so many places in life when we require bravery, the ability to do something while we are afraid to do it.
Bravery is built in the mind and the body through repeated acts of bravery.
And music is a bravery gym.