Musician responds to Whiplash | Tal Wilkenfeld and Lex Fridman

let me ask you about mentorship you said uh teachers and mentors you had mentors what's a good Mentor for you harsh or supportive supportive supportive you seen Whiplash the movie so that guy like somebody screaming at you like kicking you off the cliff not necessary I feel like anybody that's truly passionate about something that they want to be great at or a master of or this and that they've already got that person inside their own head you you don't need somebody else to do that for you I think you need love acceptance guidance support time um advice if you ask for it just a space just a nice open space all my mentors were just that for me they didn't tell me to do anything they they didn't care like it cuz they're not they why do they need to be invested in where I'm going only I know where I'm going so for some mentor to come and be like this is what you need to be doing and practice this it's like but why what if that's not my path that might be your path so I'm not really again otherwise it feels like a sport like who can run the fastest race and it's like well okay well I get that for that for sport maybe it makes sense to have someone a bit more hardcore but still like I would say athletes have the same mentality they've got they've got that in them already too like so I think more like of a strategic approach to mentorship works really well and mainly just have having an open space and just being available to someone MH and kind of show that you they see the special in you and they give you the room to develop that special whatever exactly cuz if you do have that harsh critic inside you it's like it is nice to have somebody that isn't like your family or someone that's not obligated any way that just sees your talent and they're like yeah I dig what you're doing keep doing it yeah it's funny that that's not always easy to come by do you have any mentors yeah I've had a few recently but for most of my life people didn't really you know I I'm very much like that too like somebody to pet me on the back and say like like see something in you of value um yeah I didn't really have that so do you wish you did yeah yeah but maybe the wishing that I did is the thing that made me who I am not having it the longing for that maybe that's the thing that um helped me develop a constant sense of longing which I think it's it's a is a way of because I have that engine in me it really allows me to deeply appreciate every single moment every single everything that's given to me so like just a Eternal gratitude so you never know which the which are the bad parts and the good parts so if you remove one thing it might be it uh the whole thing might collapse I suppose I'm grateful for the whole thing that one note you screwed up so many years ago that might have been essential what about because you do Jiu-Jitsu yes so like do you are you I don't my dad does my dad's super into it I love my dad he's the ghost um but no I don't do it he's a he's a blue belt right now nice nice you ever been on the mat with him like not yet but I plan on it should do it what belt are you black belt sick do you want to go on yeah right you got the talking part of you just down you have to do the the technique um but like for that like for instance like do you do you need a harsh Mentor or teacher or yeah but you like you said it really beautifully like there's a to to me I agree there's a difference between Sport and art yeah they overlap there's you know for sure but there's something about sport where like Perfection is actually like Perfection Perfection is really the thing you really want to get to the technical Perfection with art it feels like technical Perfection is um is almost a way to get lost on the path to wherever something unique so um but yeah with with sport I definitely and one of the kind of athletes that loves to have like a dictatorial coach yeah somebody that like helps me really push myself to the Limit but you're the one that's kind of dictating how hard you're getting pushed in a way like you're choosing your Mentor like that Whiplash video is like he didn't ask for that you know in a way he might have well maybe maybe subconsciously I mean there's it's a movie so next you're going to tell me they're just actors I mean and but you know yeah how do we choose things you know you don't always choose but you you're kind of maybe subconsciously choose and and some of it like some of the great Olympic athletes I've interacted with their parents for many years would forced them to go to practice until they discovered the beauty of the thing that they were doing and then they loved it yeah so like at which point does uh something that looks like abuse become like a gift you know it's weird it's all very weird but for you support and space to discover the thing The Voice the music within you person personal choice because I'm very familiar with the inner critic and I can bring her out at any point I don't need help with that you know Al so you do have she call she was on overdrive that's why now I'm I had to work on that so much yeah you have a really happy way about you right now thanks the very Zen I

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Length: 6min 41sec (401 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 15 2024