TEM238: Jon Bisesi on creative hours, surrounding yourself with talented people and battling the resistance inside of us all

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TEM238: Jon Bisesi on creative hours, surrounding yourself with talented people and battling the resistance inside of us all

Jon Bisesi is a composer, arranger, published author and percussionist for The President's Own Marine Band.

On Today's Episode of The Entrepreneurial Musician:

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  • What makes Jon so driven to have so many side projects on top of being in the President’s Own Marine Band

  • The constant inspiration he draws from other people’s creative energy

  • How he uses the time before his family wakes up to get things done

  • The spreadsheet he has to stay focused and productive

  • Why it’s okay to not accomplish everything you set out to do in a day

  • How Jon defines a creative hour

  • The system he uses to grade every single day and why that’s so vital in him moving forward creatively

  • The Tim Ferriss quote about choosing unhappiness over uncertainty

  • The various forms of resistance in all of our lives

  • What he thinks about first thing in the morning and last thing at night

  • The power of unplugging 

  • How he got permission to arrange a piece and why we shouldn’t put up roadblocks for ourselves

  • How maybe 10 minutes of thoughtful research led to him getting his children’s book published even though he was an unknown in that space

  • Why it’s a good idea to write a pitch to someone and then walk away before revisiting it and ultimately sending it

  • “Know what you know and know what you don’t know.”

  • How putting your work or value into words really focuses you

  • The difficulty of being laser focused while also well rounded

  • The value of surrounding yourself with people who are better than you

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