Everything I do wrong in business, I can now hear. Literally — on a drum.
Everything I do wrong in business, I can now hear. Literally — on a drum.
For two years now, I've been learning to play the djembe. Mostly, I'm learning to stop interfering.
A while ago, something shifted. I understood that the rhythm isn't something I need to acquire — it's already in me. My only job is to not block it on its way out.
That's when the real lesson started.
I can now watch, in real time, how fear of making a mistake creates tension in my body — and the rhythm disappears. How one stray thought lands, and I'm off beat. And the strangest one: when the playing gets genuinely good, a thought sneaks in — this can't be right, it can't be this good — and knocks me down again.
Or it flows, I feel the joy of it, and immediately: now change something, invent something new, make it better. And just like that, there's no time left to simply enjoy the playing.
It's exactly like life. Especially like business.
The same voices: I must try harder. I must learn more. I must keep changing things, improving things. When the truth is simpler — I can just create. Let out what's already there. After all, I've been playing my real estate compositions for more than 20 years.
What I notice now, in my second year: it's getting easier to relax. I can hold the rhythm longer. And more and more often — I just enjoy playing, and feel gratitude.