Why Having It All Can Hold You Back

I'll tell you a quick story. Back in 2017, 2018, I had the opportunity to ghostwrite for a Grammy winning music producer. You would know his name. And he flew me out to his multi million dollar ranch and I spent the weekend with him. He had this incredible home, but this gorgeous home studio. The first day we were hanging out, he had every keyboard money could buy. He had this amazing, all the technology he could ever want. And I said, wow, your creative process must be so different now. You have so many tools at your disposal. And. And he looks at me and he goes, actually, it's killing me. I said, what do you mean? Like, you have everything you could ever want. And he goes, I think to make my next album, I'm going to rent a rundown apartment in the city and I'm gonna make it with just a couple sounds on my laptop and the earbuds that I used to make my first album. And I asked him why? And he said, because when you have every keyboard you could ever imagine, it's actually overwhelming. You have no constraint. And when you have no constraint and everything is an option, well, now it's impossible to make a choice.