Why is it so difficult for any of us to take advice? Is it because we can’t see the immediate effect of listening?
Unfortunately, most advice isn’t demonstrable as immediately effective or helpful. There does seem to be one place, however, where people are willing to take advice, and that is in a sound studio. Whoever works the soundboard seems to have the ear of the performer. Maybe the reason is that the advice comes in the form of immediate playback, revealing the benefit of yielding to the control of someone who can change the volume, the treble, and the bass to produce the best version of a performance. The sound of words doesn’t seem to hit home as much as the sound of sounds.
Now most of us have ears, but to paraphrase Mark, 8:18, we don’t listen. Of course, in a sound studio the advice is the sound itself, and the producer can vary the “advice” with knobs, dials, and slides on the soundboard.
Maybe knobs, dials, and slides are what we need to give advice that is not only heard but accepted. And maybe if we pictured any person giving us advice as a producer sitting behind a soundboard adjusting the sounds, we might be more inclined to listen.
Most advice doesn’t lend itself to immediate playback. That’s unfortunate, but it is the reality of time outside a studio where most life occurs. But if we want our music to be accepted by a wider audience in the theater of daily life, we need to think of our advisors as producers with soundboards.
Unfortunately, most advice isn’t demonstrable as immediately effective or helpful. There does seem to be one place, however, where people are willing to take advice, and that is in a sound studio. Whoever works the soundboard seems to have the ear of the performer. Maybe the reason is that the advice comes in the form of immediate playback, revealing the benefit of yielding to the control of someone who can change the volume, the treble, and the bass to produce the best version of a performance. The sound of words doesn’t seem to hit home as much as the sound of sounds.
Now most of us have ears, but to paraphrase Mark, 8:18, we don’t listen. Of course, in a sound studio the advice is the sound itself, and the producer can vary the “advice” with knobs, dials, and slides on the soundboard.
Maybe knobs, dials, and slides are what we need to give advice that is not only heard but accepted. And maybe if we pictured any person giving us advice as a producer sitting behind a soundboard adjusting the sounds, we might be more inclined to listen.
Most advice doesn’t lend itself to immediate playback. That’s unfortunate, but it is the reality of time outside a studio where most life occurs. But if we want our music to be accepted by a wider audience in the theater of daily life, we need to think of our advisors as producers with soundboards.
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