This video was sent to me in an email yesterday -it's about creative productivity, and giving our brain a break to allow time for inspiration to seep in. The presenter is Morgan Giddings, a neuro-scientist with a company dedicated to creative productivity.
It's good. It takes as long as a slow breakfast to watch it. Recommended!
Have your cake and eat it too: what brain science tells us about productivity (the 105 hour lie)
Now, please excuse me - I'm off to take a break! Less equals more ... less twirling, more creative productivity.
Read this great article, passed on to Whittaker by BufferApp:-
Practice Makes Perfect
(It's not about how to do your piano practice, though! More to the point, it tells you about the neurological things that happen to your brain when you practice something repeatedly - whether music practice, or any other skill!)
(By the way, let's introduce BufferApp -
http://bufferapp.com It's a website for programming your tweets to appear at regular intervals. Very useful!)