Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us to take full advantage of our love for it – and by extension, for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections…
This is definitely one of my favourite talks from TED, to date. These are just 5 of the reasons, some of its most brilliant moments:
1. The impulses: The accurate description of how the impulses are reduced with age and practice.
2. What is a one-buttock player?
3. Nobody is tone-deaf: B, A, G, F…
4. Why am I clapping?
5. Shinning eyes: If the eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
… And a wonderful work of Chopin to guide and attach it all.
“It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming”