Why Stories Rock

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Story, Writing

Why cliches should be avoided, why storytelling works every time – and why writing is like meditation:

http://dailyinfographic.com/how-does-writing-affect-your-brain-infographic

Music = Intelligence

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Arts, Children, Education, Music, Plato

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.” – Plato

An enlightening infographic on how music makes you smart, with tips on the best music to study to:

http://supersimplelearning.com/blog/2013/06/07/weekend-reading-musics-effect-on-learning/

Disco

Music starts from story and fun.

My Top 11 music videos, all found on YouTube:

1. Perpetuum Jazzile’s ‘Africa’

2. ThePianoGuys’ ‘Cello Wars (Star Wars Parody) Lightsaber Duel’

3. ThePianoGuys’ ‘One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful’ (5 Piano Guys, 1 Piano)

4. Evelyn Glennie’s ‘How to Truly Listen’ (TED Talk)

5. Revathy Sankaran’s ‘Twinkle Twinkle Desi Style All Indian Flavours’

6. Victor Borge (any of his virtuoso comic acts, e.g. ‘how people with different occupations play the piano’)

7. Nick Pitera’s ‘One Man’ series (e.g. One Man Disney Movie, One Man Les Miserables, One Man Phantom of the Opera)

8. Matteo Negrin’s ‘Music Painting – Glocal Sound’

9. The Music Theory Song (Intervals Roasting)

10. Samsung Galaxy Note commercial – Beckham plays Beethoven’s Ode to Joy

11. Rowan Atkinson’s ‘The Piano Player’ (also ‘Invisible Drum Kit’, ‘The Conductor’)

Biblio

We read to know we are not alone. – C.S. Lewis

Books are windows to our world – and our souls. 

My Top 11.

1. Wit (Margaret Edson)

2. Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)

3. 1984 (George Orwell)

4. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (John Boyne)

5. Harp of Burma (Michio Takeyama)

6. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Ayi Kwei Armah)

7. What Gives Us Our Names (Alvin Pang)

8. Malay Sketches (Alfian Sa’at)

9. Kampong Boy (M Ravi)

10. Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window (Tetsuko Kuroyanagi)

11. Momo (Michael Ende)