Name: 2019年我讀過的最好的書 (The Best Book I Read in 2019)
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My name is Thomas Frank and as you might know

if you've been watching my channel for any length of time,

And in this video, I want to share the best book

that I read this year for my own productivity

and the one that taught me the most important lessons

Is it some big long book by Robert Greene

with tons of annoying red texts in the margins?

by somebody who doesn't really work in the productivity

or self-help or career success industries whatsoever.

The book is "How Music Works" by David Byrne,

who is the founder or at least one of the founding members

the author of this book is not a productivity consultant,

and this book isn't a productivity book at all.

A lot of it is about his own life and performance.

It's about recording technology and how it's changed,

it's how the production of music has changed.

Nonetheless, the lessons that I took from this book

have impacted my work and improved the way that I do it

more than the lessons I took from any other book

And in this video, I want to share three of them

So the first big lesson that I took from this book is

that creative works often come out of a specific context,

like a specific audience that an artist is trying to reach

or a specific venue in which they have to play.

This is actually kind of the opposite view

that most people have when they think of great artists.

"that a classical composer gets a strange look

"in his or her eye and begins furiously scribbling

"Or that the rock and roll singer is driven

"and out bursts this amazing, perfectly shaped song

"that had to be three minutes and 12 seconds,

And this view is actually the complete opposite

from the truth that we either unconsciously

that fit into predetermined contexts or formats.

Some examples could include the audience,

their current tastes, their demographics.

The venue could be outside, could be a cathedral,

Say a vinyl disc that only holds so much information.

cathedral music often stays within the same key

throughout the entire duration of a piece

And the reason for this, as Robert Jourdain points out

in his book "Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy,"

is that some cathedrals have reverberation times

of up to seven seconds, which is incredibly long.

music that uses lots of complex percussive sounds

becomes a chaotic mess really, really quickly.

So a lesson that I took from this part of the book is

that a lack of limitations or a lack of context

is actually a bad thing for being creative

You've probably seen the power of limitations at work

I mean, how many times have you found yourself

and actually been more focused as a result?

So one thing that I've been trying to do recently is

to give myself some sometimes arbitrary limitations

For example, my one hour morning routine video

and which was one of the more successful videos

on my channel recently had some rules in place

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