Academy Snippets: How to Focus

In this clip from Chick s live workshops (part of the Chick Corea Academy), he explains how to focus. In short, his advice was this: My advice is to control your attention. Thats an easy thing for one to understand. You can put your attention where you want to put your attention. Thats the exercise. If youre working, or writing, or practicing, or whatever youre doing, and you find yourself getting a little hazy and youre not focused or you have extraneous thoughts one simple way to handle the whole thing is (1) realize that you have control of your own attention and (2) get your attention out, and out of your head. Look at the room, look at the ceiling, talk a walk, look outside and start controlling your attention. That way you can go back in and make sure you put your attention and you hold it where you want to hold To learn more about the Academy, go to Chick s book, A Work in Progress, has rec