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Show some spine…
I had a sharp reminder the other day, as in pointed and slightly painful. I rocked up to my guitar lesson with a song I wanted to learn. Instead of showing me how to play it, my guitar teacher asked me what key I thought it was in, which I answered correctly. On the second attempt. He then asked me what the four scales were for that key and I got the first one right, guessed the second and was completely at a loss on three and four. Danny was not sympathetic. “How did you think you were going to learn the lead if you don’t apply the foundation principles that all lead work is based on?” Ouch. He was right: once again I had been relying on my version of musical theory, stuff I’d worked out, mental shortcuts I took, areas I avoided because I hadn’t worked them out or where my crude “work-around” did not fit. I knew that there were these things called scales and that they are the spine of a good lead, but I’d done alright without so far! It’s the same in business. There’s a right way of doing things, and yet how often do we persist in defying the odds by doing things “our way”. We can rationalise our way as cheaper, easier, or less hassle. But it’s not the right way. And the discipline involved in doing things right is the spine of our business. |