[jancsika]

> Reminds me of a school class mate who had a very low success rate with girls, and switched successfully to better odds by a similar strategy: "If you talk about you, and your life, and where you come from for ten minutes, and she is still there listening, then you know you have a chance."

Reminds me how I found my current piano teacher. I'd bang incessantly on the white keys with the pedal fully depressed for a full ten minutes. If the teacher hadn't thrown me out by that point, I knew I'd found a good one.

Now that she's got me on energy drinks and ear plugs and I can go a full four hours without stopping. We think that should be enough music to start getting some paying gigs at restaurants. So I'm using the same 10 minute white-key bang session for my auditions to filter out the good restaurants, but unfortunately I haven't found any yet.

Still, my teacher says to keep my head up and my ear plugs in. As long as I continue with the lessons the gigs are sure to come.

All in all it's an incredibly satisfying and productive relationship!

[d-lisp]

Persistence is the key

Persistence on the keys