Klarinet Archive - Posting 000359.txt from 2005/07

From: Austin Hogan <ajhogan@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Personal preferences
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:55:20 -0400

I know in my case I analyze my preferences until I understand them. I
like to not just know my prefrences but to understand them as well.
It's probably because if I understnad why I like something it is
easier to find.

Austin

On 7/29/05, Ormondtoby Montoya <ormo2ndtoby@-----.net> wrote:
> Yesterday I happened to hear an NPR program ("Infinite Mind", or similar
> title) in which a group of psychologists & neurologists & composers &
> authors discussed "writer's block".
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> One of them made the statement that her personal preferences demand that
> she not understand why she likes a piece of music or story that she is
> writing. When she understands it, she often gets writer's block
> because there seems (to her) to be no point in continuing any further.
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> She explained other causes for her writer's block episodes (especially
> unsympathetic editors and agents), but it interested me that she echoed
> Karl's original question of "Why do you want to understand your own
> preferences?" Yet I usually feel, as a different person, the opposite
> way. I'm usually uncomfortable when I don't understand.
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> ....interesting... one size does not fit all.
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