Good Advice from Jacobs School of Music Faculty Member

Check out this bit of good inspiration from the IU News Room.
It focuses on Jeff Nelsen, a faculty member from the IU Jacobs School of Music who is also a French Horn player and a member of the Canadian Brass. Nelsen, apparently, teaches people how to be "fearless" in their performances. And we all perform: business people, college professors, performers, students looking for their first entry-level job in their career field.

Here's the press release.

My favorite: "Don't compete. Did Einstein compete? Did Mozart?"

Change Blindness Video

As a comment mentioned, I've been quiet lately.
Lots of stuff going on.
None of it I really want to blog about.

But, another semester has started, and I'm teaching a course called Cognitive Approaches to Media. In it we try to peel open the "black box" of the brain. We start with the topic of perception, which led us to a discussion of a phenomenon known as change blindness. One of the most prominent researchers in the area, Daniel Simons, has a great lab website that you should check out.

But, also look at this YouTube video that one of the students in the class sent to us.