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This is going to maybe sound dumb, but hear me out: I've found a good hack to get around the montage fallacy, which is: the montage playlist. For whatever thin
by samatman 3y ago
This is going to maybe sound dumb, but hear me out: I've found a good hack to get around the montage fallacy, which is: the montage playlist.
For whatever thing you're trying to improve, which would be a montage in your personal movie, make a playlist. Stick with it: it's fine to swap songs in or out, but don't overdo it, maintain the continuity.
Memory is episodic, and for my brain type at least, sound, specifically musical sound, really ties it together. Listening to music from bygone decades is the best tool I have to really put myself in my memories of those times.
The montage playlist works the same way: it compresses all the slow, repetitive, boring work that goes into improving yourself into a montage. It feels less like dozens to hundreds of hours, and more like the same hour but getting a bit better each time.
- bschne 3y agoI think this is great! It may not work if you're trying to build a five-minute-a-day daily habit, it may not work for everyone, but there's def something to it! There's also a pattern of some pretty productive people making playlists of a few upbeat but simple songs they'd never listen to otherwise, and putting that on repeat when they go heads-down on something, see e.g. one of my favorite examples: https://ryanholiday.net/the-guilty-crazy-secret-that-helps-me-write/ https://ryanholiday.net/the-guilty-crazy-secret-that-helps-m...
- enobrev 3y agoIn the case of a 5-minute-a-day daily habit, you might consider choosing a specific song (maybe changing it weekly or monthly) for said habit.
- Dr_Birdbrain 3y agoYes! I like Paganini’s Caprice No. 24
- Karellen 3y ago5:32, Swinging on a Star?
- bschne 3y agoRituals work!
- hosh 3y agoIt does not sound dumb. Ideas like this crossed my mind and I had even put a playlist together too. However, mindfulness and being present is a huge part of the practice. You get a lot more out of something if you are able to be more present during the boring parts than your consciousness leaving.
- samatman 3y agoWhether or not music takes you out of the present or not varies a lot by person. If you're the sort that finds it distracting then this isn't for you, and that's fine.
- hosh 3y agoSure, although the sensations themselves are not the cause of being present or not. The idea of having music in the background to evoke a montage scene is a kind of fantasizing on what it feels like to be … montaging. My mind does something similar without a montage playlist. In both cases, the power of being present is partially siphoned off to sustain that fantasizing, rather than sensing and experiencing what is happening in the training. There is an alternate thing that can happen — the use of music to artificially create a proxy for the external, social conditioning. That is also a support, and if that is what someone need, sure. However, there is much to be said when someone is able to tap into the internal drive and passion, without relying on an external social conditioning. There are also skills that, you cannot develop without jettisoning supports like that.
- samatman 3y ago> There are also skills that, you cannot develop I believe we've never met? That would make this presumptuous, or more likely, projection.
- hosh 3y ago“You” as in general, not “you” specifically. I don’t have anything against anyone trying. One class of skills involving the consciousness is like that.
- PoignardAzur 3y agoFor sports specifically, if you want to get started with regular short exercises, you might want to look into Tabata playlists.