Expand your bubble
It’s easy to live inside a bubble and not realize it. Sometimes it’s because all the people around you like the same things or share the same beliefs. Other times you lack exposure to new things and it distorts your sense of what’s out there.
Trish and I have an extensive music collection, with more than 500 albums. We also subscribe to Apple Music so we can play anything in the Apple library for free. I recently realized we aren’t taking full advantage of the music at our fingertips. Other than new releases by our favorite bands, we tend to listen to what we already have in our collection.
In the car, I kept hearing great songs on the radio and thinking, why don’t we ever listen to this at home? Oh right, it’s not in our music collection or it’s not on the playlists we’ve been listening to.
For the last few weeks, I’ve made an effort to look around for new music and classics not in our collection. I’m astonished at how much great music I’ve been missing. I wonder where else I’m more sheltered than I thought. Our own blind spots are the hardest to find.
Where do you find new music or classics you’ve been missing?
Hopefully, my questions cause you to reflect on your own thinking, relationships or choices. Maybe I even inspire you to make positive changes.
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