Elizabeth Margulis

something that is an important part of who you are and how you came to be, you know, the way you are in the world, that was latent, right?

You couldn't access it until the song kind of reached in and grabbed it out for you.

So that's one example.

Another example is spontaneous thought is really important to our sense of well-being, to how we experience ourselves in the world.

So think about situations like anxiety or depression.

Both of these are categorized by stuck thoughts, where it's really hard to get out of the same rut of the thought that's circling through your head.

And we all know that if you're experiencing anxiety or depression, people will say things like, go outside and take a walk.

And that will kind of jumpstart you into a new kind of pattern of thinking, perhaps.

But sometimes it's really hard to get out of bed when you're experiencing a situation like that.

Just turning on a song is a really low barrier to entry way to take yourself into another thoughtscape entirely, one that can hopefully set you on potentially some better track.

Thirdly, I am a person who both has aging parents and I have teenage children.

I have two children who are Gen Z and one who is Gen Alpha.

And it turns out that sharing our musical daydreams across these generations has been one of the most

fascinating and connecting experiences that I've had both with my parents and with my children.

Because we're all listening to the same sounds, right?

We're having this shared sensory experience.

But when we're able to really then talk about what it means to us, what we imagine, what the associations are for us and how it becomes meaningful in our mind, there's a whole new insight I can get about things that feel very personal

to these people who I really care about that would be hard to talk about in more abstract terms.

Yeah, it's been a real blast for me over these past few years, you know, leveraging in a way these experiences to have some really cool conversations.

This is such a great question, and I have a couple of telling examples here.