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Why your best ideas usually start as bad ones | Think Like A Musician

Professional songwriters share the importance of embracing mistakes, collaboration, and experimentation in the creative process.

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1:38 just hits me
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Great video, thank you
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I'll be thinking at 3 am
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👏👏
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very cool.
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perfect
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thanks for this video , love it
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Great stuff 👏 Shared on Sonicstate today!
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it's perfect with many people
and I love this video
thanks ted ed
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But what about a society that condemns mistakes and expects its own twisted sense of perfection onto others?
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TED-Ed could you make a video about CPTSD please? (Complex ptsd)
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@Eltoca21 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 1
I love this series. Thank you.
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Dude my social teacher literally shows your history videos about lore on them in my middle school
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This applies so much to Software. As an engineer, now product manager, you have to embrace the iterations (experimentations) at times as a group, at times on your own, no one ships perfect!
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Keep this series coming, its great
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@kko9303 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 7
Thank you. It feels like everything is like this across other domains. It made me believe in myself again. 🙏
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Been there.... one time during a collage assignment where you have to design a unique coffee cup, i draw a small brown among us at the conner of the idea. Guess which one that my prof pick to be approve.... sure i got like C for i dont know how to transform that coffee cup perfectly shape like among us but it just to show that sometime the small but wild idea always be more creative then what you originally imagine.....
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I'm so glad I'm not the only one who's obsessed with the idea that mistakes and bad starts can be powerful!
I recently made a video about this on my channel, which reinforced a lot of my thoughts on the subject.
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What if all my ideas are perfect
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Sometimes, a missed note can be a happy accident.