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"Music is a life force!"

Grammy-winning musician Jon Batiste @jonbatistemusic and Emmy-winning writer Suleika Jaouad have a unique creative partnership, and it’s not just because they’re married. In this episode, Adam sits down with the dynamic duo at the World Economic Forum in Davos to discuss the lessons they’ve learned from watching each other live and work. Suleika gives advice on overcoming writer’s block, Jon reframes music as a restorative practice, and Adam challenges each of them to describe the other’s creative process. Join us in person at a TED conference: https://tedtalks.social/events Become a TED Member to support our mission: https://ted.com/membership Subscribe to a TED newsletter: https://ted.com/newsletters Follow our podcasts! Podcasts: https://www.ted.com/podcasts Fixable: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/fixable How to Be a Better Human: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/how-to-be-a-better-human ReThinking with Adam Grant: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/rethinking-with-adam-grant TED Talks Daily: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/ted-talks-daily TED Business: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/ted_business TED Health: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/ted-health TED Tech: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/ted-tech The TED Audio Collective is a collection of podcasts for the curious. The TED Audio Collective videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organiz...). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com.

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May 23, 20260mWatch on YouTube ↗

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    Music as energy: frequency, intention, and ideas becoming reality

    1. JB

      Thinking about music as energy and as frequency. And frequency emits intention, and it also plants the seed of intention, and that intention sprouts in your subconscious and then in your conscious mind as ideas. Ideas become things.

    2. SP

      Hmm.

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    Civil rights movement: music as the life force and soundtrack of collective action

    1. JB

      If you look at, you know, we had the birthday of the great Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights movement and the music that preceded it was the soundtrack and also one of the things that gave it a life force in a different way that it would not have had without that energy frequency permeating every moment, every march, every bus ride, every protest. All of this is important. We have a superpower in music when we view it as not only entertainment but as a spiritual practice

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