The benefits of learning music | Opinions - The New Indian Express

Gyms are still full, books are still being read, and screens are still going off at a reasonable hour, as Bindu Subramaniam, singer, songwriter, educator and social entrepreneur reports.

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Two weeks into 2020, we are still riding the ‘new year, new me’ high. Gyms are still full, books are still being read, and screens are still going off at a reasonable hour. We are playing around with ways to add more culture to our lives, whether it’s learning how to dance or going out on a quest to find the best pizza ever made (it counts as a legitimate New Year resolution).

In that spirit, I would like to offer another great way to kickstart the year, especially if there are kids involved – music. And as always, I come armed with evidence. Here’s why it is a great idea to start off as early as possible: It helps build entrepreneurship: Panos Panay, founding managing director of Berklee ICE (Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship), had some great insights to share on the subject.

He says learning music is an exercise in listening, collaborating, working with discipline, and getting up even after failing over and over again. Sounds familiar? Those are also qualities seen in successful entrepreneurs (and in me, according to the stories I tell my kid)...

And as they get older, subjects like physics and math get easier when musical concepts are used as a starting point (unless they’re anything like me, in which case those subjects will never get easier even if Einstein personally tutors them).

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Source: The New Indian Express