“We live in a country that seems to be in this massive state of delusion, where the idea of what you are is more important than you actually being that. And it actually works just as long as everybody’s winking at the same time. Then, if one person stops winking, you just beat the crap out of that person, and they either starting winking or go somewhere else.”
– Branford Marsalis
The students that get the opportunity to work with this man are some of the best and brightest students America has to offer. They also have to be distinguished in the field of music. And yet, Marsalis insists that these students are immensely flawed, that they demonstrate an unwillingness to really work and instead prefer to have the idea of being something instead of actually working on being that something.
And this preference is not only met in the educational system. Almost all of us are like that.
Are you like that? How can this be fixed?
