Even I Can Make Music On The Web
Looking for something new to do? Try making music on the web. While you do, you'll be stimulating both of the brain's hemispheres - the 'rational' left hemisphere will be analyzing the structure of the music while the 'intuitive' right hemisphere creates the melody. (While many activities engage one side of the brain or the other, scans actually show that music stimulates both hemispheres more than any other activity.) While you're at it, you might even increase the size of y
If Necessity is the Mother of Invention, is Failure the Crazy Uncle?
Successful people love to talk about failure. From Ray Bradbury ("You fail only if you stop") to Melville ("He who has never failed somewhere... that man can never be great") and beyond, failure is an old and familiar subject. Oprah talks about her failed stint as a news reporter. Julia Roberts remembers failing to be cast in All My Children. In retrospect, it seems, the famous are all hopelessly nostalgic for the failures of their past. But, in the moment of our own letdown