One should always be paying attention to the subtle quirks in the behavior of people you have a sense you can learn something from. A lot of learning happens between the lines, by mimicry and repetition of patterns that you can eventually modify to suit your own personal style and behavior. It was this attentiveness that lead me into the practice of note taking. While working on a project with two seasoned tech executives, the then CEO of the company I was engaged with, and the CTO of our client - we had a week-long session to work out some audacious goals for a new platform we were looking to conceptualize, and after a couple of days of working closely together I realized they always carried around a notebook with them, and I noticed how they always seemed to be making annotations in it.

How many times have you said I wish my day had more than 24 hours? I had constantly experimented with new methods to squeeze more hours out of my day, and extend my time to be able to do more and be more efficient at juggling all the things I have to do, together with all those I want to do, in a finite amount of time which seems to be always running out.

As you all likely have noticed, I’ve been very much focused in habit building and “self-reprogramming” recently, after having read The Power of Habit. As you can read in the post I linked above, one of the key components to successfully establishing a habit is a clear reward, one that you can build up to actually anticipate the instant you get the cue that triggers the routine. Music is one of those passions that has been a part of my life since I was a kid, it has always been an element of most of my memories and perhaps the artistic expression that I can more viscerally experience.