Hi,
I was wondering, has anything you’ve learned from the community expanded outside of guitar technique?
In my case, I think it has helped me at the gym, specifically with the basics how joints work and how they interconnect, as well as being more aware of the muscles involved in a particular exercise and how to isolate them.
“Don’t work on useless things” and “stop repeating things that are not working” are concepts I try to apply in other areas (with mixed success 
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Try lots of variations and pursue the ones that feel easy.
“Failing to succeed” is a massively helpful concept to me in my day-to-day life.
It’s made me REALLY boring at cocktail parties.
“So, one of the most understood aspects of picking technique is escape motion… Hey! Wait a minute! Come back! I only need another fifteen or so minutes of your time!”
@steve506 L M A O
Steve and I were once at a little board game night that my partner and I hosted. This happened.
LOL! Thankfully, they stopped us before getting into chunking and accents! 
Another CTC lesson for life: More time invested does not equal better results. Sometimes, 5-15 mins is all you need.
But that is one of the most important topics! They don’t know what they missed
The most important reminder of CTC is that experts often times are unaware of what they are doing and will rather craft some kind of explanation/justification in retrospect vs. confessing that they actually don’t quite know; this holds for many fields.
Tons I think, maybe most things I’ve done lol. I’ll add more as I think of it, but delayed gratification is the one that I have personally applied the most.
I can’t wait for the new CTC book, Malmsteen and Me: How One Way Economy Picking Will Make You Happier, Healthier, and Hotter
Careful Tom Hess might sue for copyright infringement 
It taught me to a more discerning musician, is fhe biggest takeaway.
The OG series (which, seriously Troy, was life-altering) was like a wake-up call therapy session, and a call to improve, which, I’m autistic and ADHD, so the original series hit me the same way I got my diagnosis.
I call it a therapy session, because Cracking the Code is basically saying, “If it sounds good, feels good, and works, then what’s the problem?”
Broke me out of a stagnation, to the point I switched my picking to USX literally because I had a ton of DSX licks to supplement the USX stuff, which I felt USX was a weakness in my playing.
Now, I can’t stop writing music. It freed up bandwidth to where I don’t have to worry about playing to my strengths. I can just play the music that comes to my head, and I can rely on these baked in motions.
Basically it gave me more freedom to be closer to the music. There’s a vibe you get when your picking hand locks into the groove, and you stay locked in. There’s no better feeling. Cracking the Code was like reminding me, an overthinker, to say if it sounds good, it is good.
I have no words to describe the psychological impact of finding someone (Troy) with the receipts to demonstrate that you are not crazy.
That’s something more I’ve learned: data is beautiful.