How Your Brain Learns a Rudiment, and Anything Else
Your working memory is a small desk. Why one thing at a time, and knowing why it matters, is how a new job, a language, a habit or a rudiment gets learned.
Essays on music, learning, faith and recovery
Grouped by the five themes I write about, newest first.
The Neuroscience of Mastery
How your brain learns, why practice turns into progress, and why pressure can steal your best playing.
If It Works in Music, It Works Everywhere
Neuroscience has identified performed music as one of the most cognitively demanding activities the human brain can undertake. The principles that produce mastery here transfer to every discipline. Here’s the research — and why I now coach non-musicians.
The Builder's Journal
What building Practicing Musician and ClimbHigh.AI taught me, for anyone building a studio, a course or a company.
What Founding a Music Education Platform Taught Me About Personalizing All Fields of Education
From music education to universal learning: discovering why true educational personalization costs $800B—and the community-driven solution that works.
Grace-Fueled Transformation
Honest hope for anyone rebuilding a life, and for the people who love them.
If It Works in Music, It Works Everywhere
Neuroscience has identified performed music as one of the most cognitively demanding activities the human brain can undertake. The principles that produce mastery here transfer to every discipline. Here’s the research — and why I now coach non-musicians.
Understanding: The Sacred Art and Science of Standing Under Truth
Explore how true understanding transforms consciousness, combining ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience to reveal the path from knowledge to embodied wisdom and inner peace.
The Integrated Life
How music, faith, clear words and a healthy body work together in one well-spent life.
High-Definition Words
Why upgrade our TVs for increasingly crystal-clear pictures but settle for fuzzy, low-definition words? Explore how precise language, like high-definition technology, can transform how we understand our world.
Authority: A High-Definition Analysis
Authorities write reality into existence, yet only insights closest to truth stand the test of time. Explore how authority shapes our world and why the highest authority resides within.
Jake’s High-Definition Dictionary
Your 4K dictionary – where words are examined in their highest resolution, restoring language to its full power and precision. A living collection of deep dives into essential terms.
Understanding: The Sacred Art and Science of Standing Under Truth
Explore how true understanding transforms consciousness, combining ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience to reveal the path from knowledge to embodied wisdom and inner peace.
The Practical Educator
Clear, tested ways to design music programs and personalize learning, for parents, teachers and schools.
How Your Brain Learns a Rudiment, and Anything Else
Your working memory is a small desk. Why one thing at a time, and knowing why it matters, is how a new job, a language, a habit or a rudiment gets learned.
What Founding a Music Education Platform Taught Me About Personalizing All Fields of Education
From music education to universal learning: discovering why true educational personalization costs $800B—and the community-driven solution that works.
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