Robin Newton

blog and essays on music, well-being, and education

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Welcome to my site!
  • Music
    • Music
    • Quora answers
  • Health and Wellbeing
    • Health and Wellbeing
    • Rebuilding
  • Conducting
  • Contact
Search

Rebuilding

Where has the fun gone?

15/04/2018 / Robin Newton / Leave a comment

I’ve been pondering over what to write about since just before Easter. I have a list of topics I want to write about that I drew up a few months ago when I started this blog. But nothing was leaping off the list and there were other things demanding my attention (buying a house, end … Continue reading Where has the fun gone?

Why is change hard?

11/03/2018 / Robin Newton / Leave a comment

One of the hardest decisions I have made was to change careers. The hard part wasn’t working out what other option I might take; the hard part was no longer pursuing the career I had set myself. It had been on my mind off and on for a couple of years but I hadn’t ever … Continue reading Why is change hard?

Why is failure good?

06/03/2018 / Robin Newton / 2 Comments

Fail hard and fail often is written so much in self-help literature that it has become a cliché. It is also one of the most debunked self-improvement strategies that I have come across. Having read a LOT about failure and spent a great deal of time feeling failure myself, I think that the most valuable … Continue reading Why is failure good?

Returning to old ground

27/02/201827/02/2018 / Robin Newton / 2 Comments

Two years ago, I had just about organised myself into a state in which I felt things could be OK. I was a few months into teacher training, having taken the momentous-feeling step of completely changing my career and the direction and purpose of my life. I was a few months away from the lowest … Continue reading Returning to old ground

5 Steps to Rebuilding

14/11/201719/11/2017 / Robin Newton / Leave a comment

1. Recognise that something needs fixing This is the hardest but the most important part of rebuilding yourself and your life. I spent a long time – I mean years – absolutely convinced that it was everyone else’s fault. Whatever went wrong, I never had any control over it. I became obsessively focused on events … Continue reading 5 Steps to Rebuilding

Recent Posts

  • The Heist and Dunning-Kruger
  • Am AI making sense?
  • I am the very model of Model Music C’riculum
  • Stormzy will save us all
  • Are there currently any living modern composers who will go down in music history alongside the famous classical composers?

Enjoy your stay!

Please look around, read and enjoy.

Find out more about this blog.

I value your feedback on everything so let me know what you think!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
  • Follow Following
    • Robin Newton
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Robin Newton
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...