A new section: Mastery, wisdom for musicians and athletes

Today we are opening a new section on the site: Mastery. This is where I will publish videos and articles on how body and mind work, and how to train them intelligently, at the instrument and in the gym.

The first video: From Sunlight to Strength

The opening piece is From Sunlight to Strength, and it starts with a simple question: where does the energy to lift a glass come from?

To answer it we follow a long path: from a photon to a leaf, from the plant to a cow, from food to ATP, and from there to the nerve signals and proteins that produce force. Along the way we see why strength is also a skill you practice, and what that has to do with every repetition at the gym.

It runs about 16 minutes in English, and the full article sits below the video, in case you prefer to read it or return to a particular idea. It is also available in Spanish.

How we made it

The ideas come from the books in my library, which are cited at the end of the article. The video was built with artificial intelligence from those study materials, and the narration uses my voice cloned in ElevenLabs.

Thank you for continuing to study.

Luis Cárdenas