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August 31, 2026

Hormesis Benefits and The Comfort Trap

We hear it all the time as we get older: Take it easy. Protect yourself. Rest. It sounds like loving wisdom, but biologically, it might be a trap. Dr. Steph, in a fascinating talk on healthy aging, flipped this conventional advice with one sentence: “If you […]

July 31, 2026

Music Is Not an Olympic Sport

A few days ago a video landed in my feed. A nine-year-old boy, Elisey Mysin, sitting at a grand piano in a full tuxedo, a professional orchestra behind him, playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 3. His hands moved like he’d been born knowing where the keys […]

July 14, 2026

The Paradox of Modern Musicking: Ultimate Proof, Ultimate Loss

There have been two very interesting books released recently, that I don’t want to wait to write about until my annual music books evaluation. Mainly because these two books are very much relevant to what Musicably is about. I hope you will find them as fascinating […]

June 29, 2026

Why Musicking Makes You Smarter at Any Age

What Einstein, Planck, and Feynman Never Forgot Albert Einstein played violin every single day. Not when he was young and still figuring things out. Throughout his adult life, in the middle of his most important work. When his thinking hit a wall, he would put down […]

June 26, 2026

Good Quality is a Wrong Question

Is quality a proper word to be connected or associated with music? This is a question I have been thinking about for a while, and in this post, I will try to express my view on the topic. My opinion is quite clear: when considered from […]

June 15, 2026

3,400 Strangers Who All Wanted to Be Alone – And Found Each Other Anyway

A few weeks ago I was watching a YouTube video about isolation. The speaker, Jacob Whelan, was arguing that choosing to step back from social life is not failure but something closer to wisdom – a hardwired response to a world that has become too noisy, […]

May 15, 2026

The Yell You Never Knew Was Music

Let me ask you something strange. When was the last time you made a really loud noise? Not talking. Not laughing politely at someone else’s joke. A full, unguarded, body-wide, embarrassing noise? If you have to think hard about it, you are not alone. Most adults […]

May 8, 2026

The Song Factory’s Real Product Is Your Silence

Picture a Tuesday morning in Nashville, USA. A songwriter arrives at a publishing office on Music Row (a historic district, serving as the heart of the country music industry since 1950s) and sits across from someone they have never met. They exchange a few words. One […]

April 24, 2026

I Have Been Saying This for Years. This Proves It!

It happened the way the best discoveries usually do – sideways, by accident, while looking for something else. I was following a thread of research this morning, one thing leading to another the way it does, and suddenly I was reading about a man named Victor […]