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Yoda Would Never Say This to Young Musicians (On Arts and Entrepreneurship)
Yoda would never say this to a young musician apprentice:
“Are you an artist or an entrepreneur? Choose you must.”
He also wouldn’t say:
“Anger, fear, entrepreneurship. The dark side of the Force are they.”
But he might say:
“You must unlearn what you have learned.”
When I was growing up, practicing my Bach and Chopin...