Stumbled upon Derek Sivers’ speech for 1st year students at Berklee College of Music. An inspiring talk on how to succeed in the music industry, which can be applied to just about anyone with burning dreams, whether within the creative industry or not. Derek says many students try to play it cool in college, they opt to relax more and get distracted by the little things like the internet, the media, or the TV, instead of being focused on their studies. Here are some of my favourite extracts:
Be one of the few who knows how to help yourself, instead of expecting others to do it for you
Be of the few that does much more than is required
..Be one of the few that stays in the shed to practice, while everyone else is surfing the net, flirting on MySpace and watching TV
