The theory, basically states that:
*It is much wiser to spend 4 hours a day playing guitar and 4 hours reading challenging books, than to spend 8 hours a day playing guitar.
This is a little different for most people, considering the fact that "Who reads 4 hours a day?", but basically, what i mean is to divide your time, if you are in excess of it.
After every single novel i've finsished reading, i became significantly better on the guitar almost immediately. My brain functioned at a higher level than possible before, i could tell, every single time this happened. I'm not sure if this will happen if you don't learn anything from the novel, because I choose books that are mind-blowing in their own philosophical viewpoints on different things, so i was (and am) always learning.
Some books that i've been reading lately, such as "Moby Dick , by Herman Melville", "1984, by George Orwell", "The Lord of the Rings (whole series), by J.R.R Tolkein", "The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin", "Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury", "The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury", "War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy", "The Client, by John Grisham", "Skipping Christmas, by John Grisham", "The Summons, by John Grisham", "The Testament, by John Grisham", and several others, have seemingly placed me at a higher level, musically, although the contents in the books are rather non-musical. I guess that is arguable, but then again, this entire idea is arguable.
This thought doesn't work if you completely stop playing during your reading purges, you have to maintain your current guitar level, in order to see the immediate effect.
Note that this won't work for everyone, as there are alot of unimaginitive guitar players out there that are incapable of making a piece of music themselves, but I believe this theory will help at least a dozen of you get better at the guitar, while enjoying a great novel.
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