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🌈 its another true story. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🫠 🇯🇲 Today I doing a dub dancing competition with myself. Whilst I do getting ready. To do Another Mindblowingly Brilliant Day. 💃

Who am I being that my children's eyes are not shining? 🥹🥹🥹❤️

Three rules 1. It’s all invented, 2. Standing impossibility 3. Rule no. 6

Don’t take yourself damn God seriously

Oh my gosh… it’s so wonderful,,, rule no. 6… I will follow

☺️😊☺️ I’ll have to watch this every day ⭐️ Benjamin Zander makes my eyes shine, for sure 💛

A most wonderful man.

Absolutely love the video!

Love it! Especially his ah-ha moment..'my job is to awaken the possibility in other people' AND 'if they are not shining, who am I being that my players (or students or peers, anyone engaged with you) are not shining?'. Very simple but significantly inspiring! Love Zanders enthusiasm and engaging charisma!

exelent give everyone an a.

"Who am I being that my children's eyes are not shining?" - Benjamin Zander

Great lesson , still valid in 2023

I get a voice in my head when I play my piano and I make mistakes, I forgot to practice

What is the piano piece in the beginning?

What a brilliant man. So fresh and original to hear his ideas.

What is the background music at the beginning???

That's so cool that Yoda is in the audience 4:27

One of my favourite authors

He is right. My brass teacher was amazing. My piano tutor was a demon. If I made a mistake I would have the ruler across my fingers. She didn't know I only had a 2 octave keyboard to practice on. I also drew out on paper a piano keyboard and joined all the pieces together with tape. I would practice on that. I had lessons from her for 2 yrs. Was super critical. When you compared her to my brass teacher.... If I made a mistake with the tenor horn, he wouldn't stop me. He would encourage me to carry on. He would get me to practice the bits which I was stuck on, but cheer me on. I looked forward to every lesson.

this guy makes me grin every time. amazing, amazing, amazing. shining eyes. his philosophy is so clear, applicable, universal. beautiful!

Just look at how many Buggs Bunny cartons include pieces of classical music and kids eat it up.

Ben Zander is a pure musician. When I say pure, he has the true sense of humour, optimism and a need for an audience. I fall in to the same compartments. For the last year of the Covid problem, I have used the time to contemplate. And it has resulted in a plan that goes as follows: Once the epidemic is over, to get out and play for free in as many places as possible. This is to put back in to the stony broke venues something that they need. An attraction. To bring in people to hear real music being played again. And I will do it with a chum or two. This will satisfy personal egos, venues will enjoy the notion of free entertainment, and best of all, audiences may just pick up on our joy. Thank you Mr Zander for reminding me why I became a musician.

This brings super memories! Thanks for keeping it online 😁

So unassuming, yet so motivating. Simple yet so powerful. Easy answers to tough questions.💕

How fascinating! He sounds like Blinky from Trollhunters hahaha

Thank you.

51:36 Digital - brother man

Ben is an amazing leader. Awaken other's passion.

9:23 that woman's face (on the left) kkkkk

We don't give children a name as an Expectation to live up to, We give children a name as a Possibility to Live in to.

AMAZING man. The Zanders have been powerful inspiration in my life. Thank you for this post.

BRAVO!

5:50 Aaahh, so that's why this audience is freaking dead ass boring: they're all head teachers!

I feel bad for the guy who thinks his eyes can light up a village. he did that at the ted talk too...

I feel it to be a confusing video. Mr. Zander spends a lot of time with the concepts of negative voice in your head, downward spiral, grading system and spends IMO much too little time with the language of possibility. He didn't even write words of possibility on the flip-chart. What are the techniques to allow me to give my mother-in-law an "A"? How in the world can I possibly do this? (She's dead.) One of the things I find fascinating about playing music is that She (music) doesn't care at all about me or whether I'm following her or not. I care greatly about Her, though. This love, fascination, interest what have you is often strong enough to get me on track and help me avoid getting distracted. I'd like a bit more than just "Rule #6" to help me to stay on track. My teacher (Samuel Baron) wanted to show me that he empathized with me and told me a story of a concert in which he came out and noticed "...all the evil energy..." in the room and he played very badly (he said). I asked him if he did not indeed simply IMAGINE the bad vibes and he adamantly insisted that this was the real situation in the room. He further insisted that you can't think this away - especially not on stage. Over time, I've come to agree with him and I am attuned and sensitive to these energies. But a sourpuss only has power over you if you let him/her. I was hoping to hear from Mr. Zander HOW to not take them or/and myself so seriously, distracting me from the beauty and joy of the music at hand. What are the tools for this? What's the language? How can I even laugh at the "chatter-box" in my head who rears its jealous head just when I'm concentrating on something else? I used to make appointments with this voice when it started up, "Oh yes, I know what you're saying, but I've got something to do, now. Let's talk over coffee at 14:30." This would always temporarily ameliorate this voice. At the appointment (which I always kept) I'd learn what an idiot I was or how guilty of something I was and was able to accept. I was also often able to dissipate some of the voice's fears. I gave it certain, specific tasks to accomplish etc. I was hoping to hear more about this, here. How fascinating.

57 people clearly didn't get the video xD

Zander must be the president of the world

“The conductor doesn't make a sound. He depends for his power on his ability to make other people powerful. I realized that my job was to awaken possibility in other people.“

The laugh at 01:43 is so lovely!

ok...inspirational, but it really isn't that simple now is it. Standing in possibility and rule number 6 is a drop in the ocean for what is really required to be successful, especially in classical music.

"Everybody loves classical music!" 9:22 Well, almost everybody... :)

"radiating possibilities"... this is the philosophy of giving without expectation ... I am happy to see he is applying in to students and sharing with the audience...

"radiating possibilities"... this is the philosophy of giving without expectation ... I am happy to see he is applying in to students and sharing with the audience...

Still 100% valid ❤️

I showed this video to my daughter, and she is writing the letter of having an A in her music class/audition. She tends to be too harsh with herself. I am trying to help her. We will see...

My voice is Sergeant Hartman.

He is a brilliant man. When he talks about the voice in your head he is talking about what Prof Dr. Steve Peters calls "The chimp". He is also on You Tube.

"We might as well invent something that lights up our life,"

saw his Ted talk and now this. he is excellent. i thought he was just talking about classical music but more of a motivational life coach type person which is perfectly amazing as well. really good speaker and glad he travels around the world motivating people.

Just great!