S1 E12: Two Beats Ahead, book review: What Musical Minds Teach Us About Innovation

Hey, Tune Up and Tune In to this week’s podcast episode! My book review of Two Beats Ahead, What Great Musical Minds Teach Us About Creativity and Innovation by Panos A Panay & R. Michael Hendrix is on offer! I really enjoyed this book - it made me look at creativity in new and exciting ways. The authors share their ideas and valuable insights into how adopting a musical mindset can lead to innovative approaches in business and personal growth. Think listening deeply, collaborating, demoing, and remixing. Even if business is not your jam, I know you’re going to be inspired!

I’ve broken the book down into its main beats, get it? The Prologue, each of the Nine chapters, and the Coda. I share what stood out to me in each and, follow a few tangents into personal anecdotes (as per usual).

🎙️Key Themes Discussed, aka The Chapter Titles:

👂Listening

• 🧫Experimenting

• 🤲Collaborating

• 🎧Demoing

• 👌Producing

• 👯‍♀️Connecting

• 💿Remixing

• 🙈Sensing

• 🫧Reinventing

🔗 Resources & Links Mentioned, Rabbit Hole Approved:

• 📖 Two Beats Ahead - Panos A. Panay & R. Michael Hendrix

• 🎧 Sen Sound - Yoko Sen’s immersive soundscapes for healing

• 🩵 Hush Foundation - reducing the stress and anxiety felt by young patients and their families in hospitals

• 🎵 Like Snowdrops You Will Shine - the song from Collective Wisdom’s Hush Collection, Volume 18 - music to transform that difficult hospital environment

• 🃏 Oblique Strategies - creative prompt cards by Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt

• 🎼 Out of Silence - Neil Finn’s 2017 album recorded live, one night a week, for four weeks

• 🍻 Couch Choir - Bowie’s Heroes from 2020 - singing with strangers is s’much fun

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