Maximize the benefits

I recently read a blog post by Seth Godin titled “The real scam of ‘influencer'” and in that post he ends it with this paragraph:

“Maximizing the benefits for the social media platform you’re on are different than maximizing the benefits for you and those you are leading.“

This got me thinking about writing ‘meaningful’ music; maximizing the benefit that the act of writing music can have on the composer. Music that ‘matters’ to you. Whatever those two words mean to you. Whatever it means to write ‘meaningful’ music that ‘matters’ to you is what you should write.

If that means writing music in a specific genre, then do that. If that means composing music using certain techniques, then do that. If that means writing avant-garde music, then do that.

Write something that matters to you. It doesn’t need to matter to anyone else. Write the most authentic music you can. Write the most meaningful music that you can.

Make that experience of writing music or making music the most meaningful for you.

Maximize the benefits for you.

ISJ