The Fear of the Unknown
It's Not Brain Surg... Ok, Well It's Not Rocket Science
In two days, I’m going in for brain surgery.
The only thing I know for certain is this:
When I wake up, I will be 100% deaf in my left ear.
That’s the best-case scenario.
Everything else is unknown.
That’s a pretty wild future for someone who has been a music producer and audio engineer since he was 18.
I'm now 55.
Music Production has been my vocation.
Listening has been my job.
Music has been my life.
And now?
I’m heading into a new world.
How different it will be, I honestly don’t know.
The unknown is uncomfortable.
It strips away plans.
It kills certainty.
It forces honesty.
But it also reveals something important:
Creativity has never been about perfect conditions.
It’s about showing up anyway.
Some people wait for clarity before they begin.
Others begin and let clarity catch up.
History only remembers one of those groups.
I’m choosing the adventure.
Not because I know how this turns out.
But because I don’t.
I’m keeping a positive attitude.
I’m ready to adapt.
I’m ready to rebuild.
I’ll come back and reinvent myself as the one-eared music producer.
Not as a limitation.
As proof.
Because if I can make great, pro-sounding music with one ear—
I can teach you how to do it with two.
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The truth is simple.
You don’t need perfect conditions.
You don’t need permission.
You don’t need certainty.
You need commitment.
Balance beats force.
Clarity beats complexity.
Momentum beats motivation.
If the unknown has been stopping you…
Good.
That means you’re standing at the gate.
And the only way forward
is through it.
If I can do this with one ear—
You can do it with two.
Fight Chaos. Make Better Music.
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