Episode 57: Comfort Zone (Why DJs Should Avoid "Autopilot")

View full show notes & comments: http://PassionateDJ.com/57 In this week’s episode, David and Trip talk a bit about complacency, and the pitfalls of getting stuck in “The Comfort Zone”. You know what we mean…you become confident in your skills, you get comfortable, and then you stop pushing yourself. Perhaps it’s because you’ve become accustomed to success, or perhaps it’s because you’re experiencing frustrations and challenges. But, it can happen to anyone. You have to show up, put in the hours, and develop your craft. There’s no way around that, if you want to be good at what you do. An artist must continually make moves in order to develop, and to direct their creative energy towards something productive. An illustrator doesn’t become good at illustration by drawing the same character, in the same pose, over and over again. They just become really good at drawing Mickey Mouse snapping his fingers. When you get extremely comfortable in your DJing, you can just as easily become extremely bored…. wondering why you even bother mixing together other people’s music and calling it creative.