Colin Thomson: Do More

Key Take Aways:   We’re often asked (and we ask ourselves): What does it take to make it in the music industry? There is a common quote that can be applied to the music industry very well: “Only the paranoid survive.” If you want to “survive” in the music industry - you’re probably going to be a little bit paranoid This applies to your thoughts and actions - wherever you are and whatever you’re doing There is a “paranoid” mindset that is going to make the difference in what you are able to accomplish While there exists no really shortage of success, it’s often helpful to keep in the back of your mind what your “competition” is doing to get where both they and you want to get Sometimes I think about someone who I may be in a bid against someday - for a job or anything else. Not because everything in life is a competition, but because it helps me. Say sometime, far down the road, I will be in competition for a music composition job (just to make it personal to me) - and then I think about what that person is d