Hello and welcome back to Indie music on Tap season 2 where we cover depression and how it affects any musicians around the world. We are wrapping up our second season with a book giveaway, we announced that last episode, and the contest is still open to receive a signed copy of More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of LA Punk, from Hatchet books. Please just visit CHILLFILTR.com and click the promo link at the top of the page, or from the menu if you are on mobile. It is a fascinating read, very relevant to the divergent relationship between Roots, Punk, and Power-Pop, that we see in the modern musical landscape. The chapter from Louie Pérez of Los Lobos fame is one of the best, I think, at recreating a sense of what the 80s were like on the West Coast, and what a rich scene and sense of purpose there was among the Indie musicians of the time. Next episode we will announce the winners during the season finale.

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Today we are talking about how people get stuck, the importance of finding your own leadership, and how the way we define success for ourselves is everything. So - sometimes people get stuck. I've got an example - a friend of mine, we'll call him Tom. Now Tom is a very intelligent and academic person, well-educated, but the way that he is stuck is in the concept of victimhood. If we allow that our own personal image of self can and does lead reality in a meaningful way, then we have to admit that there might be an explanation there - that we create a pattern of finding exactly what we are looking for.  Now if you get used to saying to yourself: people take advantage of me, so there's no point in trying too hard; or even more generally, that the deck is stacked against me, so I am probably going to lose - if you say that over and over again, over the course of a lifetime, you inevitably create situations where that is true. The simple equation is this: life presents problems that cannot be overcome; this is the best I can do; so I must be happy with the consequences. Except that I am not happy - so there is the rub. Either I need to find a way to be happy with less, or I need to create more opportunity for myself. So far so good; so where is the block?

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