Harmony

Hey guys, welcome back. Before today's content, I want to announce a little change about Jsnn's Logs' future. The little adjustment is I will start to record some of my thoughts that pop up in my daily life, which means they won't be well organized like the articles I used to post. So this type of content will be more scattered, but it doesn't mean I won't make any structured content tho. Yeah that's probably all, and this piece is the start of the scattered thoughts.

Harmony, balance.

These types of words keep popping up in my head over the past couple months. It got me thinking every time I feel exhausted and have zero motivation in my work.

Eventually, I realized something. Sometimes I'm just too into it and too serious. Like the hunger for goals, achievements and expectations — meanwhile thinking I don't have enough strength to reach them.

One day I saw a video while looking for ways to get more ideas for music production, the video was made by Nick Mira, a legendary hiphop producer. And the title caught my eye, it said "No expectations = never burnout". This statement straight up caught me off guard, and I spent a few days really thinking about it using engineer's logic lol. Just imagine you have no expectations on what you're working on, there's literally zero pressure on you. This is how consistency builds up, then you'll keep doing better and better.

I think we've all had a hard time overcoming burnout, it's like you really want to accomplish it but you don't have enough power to do it, because we drain ourselves completely on high expectations.

After a few times of thinking, I found out it's like a scale. On the left side is imagination, and the right side is reality. Sometimes you need to balance these two elements. When the imagination is too much, you need to focus more on reality, vice versa. This whole concept is like making music. You build up the foundation by using chords and bass, layer by layer to the leads and the "harmonies". Everything needs to be balanced to make the music sound "right".

And all of this is unique, everyone grows in different ways, and they create their own definition of balance. So, I think that's the reason why there's no "best decision", more specifically there's only the "decision that fits you".