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We are losing important
On a cold January morning in a subway station in Washington I located the man and began to play the violin.
During the 45 minutes he played 6 pieces. During this time, as it was rush hour, it passed by over a thousand people, most of whom went to work.
For 45 minutes only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while, even 20 without stopping, threw money. Earnings amounted to $ 32 a musician. No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell - one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, and a violin worth $ 3, 5 million. Two days before he took the subway to his concert in Boston, where the average ticket price was $ 100, it was sold out.
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Game Joshua Bell in the subway is part of a social experiment, the Washington Post about perception, taste and priorities of people, the principles of which were in the everyday environment at an inopportune moment we feel the beauty? Let there to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
One of the conclusions from this experiment may be as follows: if we can not find time for what would briefly stop and listen to the best ever written pieces of music performed by one of the best musicians in the world; if the pace of modern life has become so rapid that we become blind and deaf to such things. then why are we such a life? Why do we need other people's unceasing pursuit of imposed values? And yet we are losing in this frenzy?
The answer is: we lose life itself.
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During the 45 minutes he played 6 pieces. During this time, as it was rush hour, it passed by over a thousand people, most of whom went to work.
For 45 minutes only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while, even 20 without stopping, threw money. Earnings amounted to $ 32 a musician. No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell - one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, and a violin worth $ 3, 5 million. Two days before he took the subway to his concert in Boston, where the average ticket price was $ 100, it was sold out.
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Game Joshua Bell in the subway is part of a social experiment, the Washington Post about perception, taste and priorities of people, the principles of which were in the everyday environment at an inopportune moment we feel the beauty? Let there to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
One of the conclusions from this experiment may be as follows: if we can not find time for what would briefly stop and listen to the best ever written pieces of music performed by one of the best musicians in the world; if the pace of modern life has become so rapid that we become blind and deaf to such things. then why are we such a life? Why do we need other people's unceasing pursuit of imposed values? And yet we are losing in this frenzy?
The answer is: we lose life itself.
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