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We do a lot of different things in a day. What if there were a way to speed up our daily, weekly, and monthly tasks so that we could squeeze a few minutes free, or better yet, make our tasks easier to perform so that we didn’t have to work so hard at them? How about the power of the checklists?
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Hello Paula – I finally got around to listening to this episode. There is so much here to unpack. A couple comments, as the parent of a pre-teen violinist:
1) Enjoyed your comparison of checklists (for playing setup, home management, studio management) to those used in aviation. For the longest time, I had a “Pre-takeoff Checklist” taped to the music stand in the practice room. One other aviation comparison (a long time ago, I piloted high-performance aircraft): when making approaches in low visibility/low ceiling conditions, there are hard-and-fast rules about when you should continue the approach. Otherwise a missed approach is required. I think about this in terms of setup in practice and performance. If everything isn’t perfect, don’t start! Or in practice, if something is missed, stop – don’t continue the “approach.”
2) My wife is a surgeon – and in the O.R. they have defined transitions, e.g. beginning and end of a case where a “surgical pause” is required. Everyone stops what they are doing to verify the patient, the surgery to be performed and then afterward to count instruments, sponges, etc. Perhaps there’s an analogy there too – I always have my daughter pause on stage to collect her wits, thinks about her setup, musical intentions, etc. It seems like an eternity but those moments to collect yourself are priceless.
As always, what a wonderful episode. Thanks for such a huge contribution to the Suzuki community!