Brainjo Bites: The Art & Science of Molding a Musical Mind
Oct 27, 2026 · 55 min · 12 segments
When someone asked Aryna Sabalenka how much breathing work she did with her performance coach, she said, "Oh, I don't know, not really much, really." In fact, they'd been doing it since day one. That…
Josh TurknettHost
Is there anything that we didn't get to you or you want to say that we haven't said? before
I mean, we said a lot of different things and it feels more like we could have dug into so many different layers of this, but I think it's just, I've said it before.
I just look, you know, Wherever you are in your life now, and if it's not where you want to be, if there's change that you want to make, if you want to achieve a certain thing or get your life to be a certain place, then just understand you have that power.
Knowing, again, that you actually have control of the direction of your life, even if it may not feel like it right now.
And even if there's a lot of things around you that you don't have control over, if you just have that awareness of what those things are, that is power.
That is opportunity for you, even if you can't change it right now, just the understanding and awareness.
So you go, OK, these are the things I know I need to change or I want to make different.
These are the things I do actually have some sort of control over or I can learn to have some control over.
The other things I can kind of put on a shelf and just know, OK, they're there.
So if there ever is an opportunity or a crack for me to be able to break through one of those things I can't control right now, just my awareness of it alone is going to allow that opportunity to exist when it does present itself.

Is there anything that we didn't get to you or you want to say that we haven't said? before
I mean, we said a lot of different things and it feels more like we could have dug into so many different layers of this, but I think it's just, I've said it before.
I just look, you know, Wherever you are in your life now, and if it's not where you want to be, if there's change that you want to make, if you want to achieve a certain thing or get your life to be a certain place, then just understand you have that power.
Knowing, again, that you actually have control of the direction of your life, even if it may not feel like it right now.
And even if there's a lot of things around you that you don't have control over, if you just have that awareness of what those things are, that is power.
That is opportunity for you, even if you can't change it right now, just the understanding and awareness.
So you go, OK, these are the things I know I need to change or I want to make different.
These are the things I do actually have some sort of control over or I can learn to have some control over.
The other things I can kind of put on a shelf and just know, OK, they're there.
So if there ever is an opportunity or a crack for me to be able to break through one of those things I can't control right now, just my awareness of it alone is going to allow that opportunity to exist when it does present itself.
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