# Benefits from CTC outside of guitar?
**URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917
**Category:** Off-Topic
**Created:** [May 23, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917 "2025-05-23T14:32:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@steve506](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/steve506)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/1 "2025-05-23T14:32:47Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@tommo](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/tommo)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/2 "2025-05-23T14:33:51Z")
“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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### Author:  [@induction](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/induction)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/3 "2025-05-23T15:28:56Z")
Try lots of variations and pursue the ones that feel easy.
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### Author:  [@eric\_divers](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/eric_divers)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/4 "2025-05-23T15:47:46Z")
“Failing to succeed” is a massively helpful concept to me in my day-to-day life.
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### Author:  [@Drew](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Drew)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/5 "2025-05-23T17:02:58Z")
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!”
😆
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### Author:  [@eric\_divers](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/eric_divers)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/6 "2025-05-23T17:17:52Z")
@steve506 L M A O
Steve and I were once at a little board game night that my partner and I hosted. This happened.
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### Author:  [@steve506](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/steve506)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/7 "2025-05-23T18:23:06Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@tommo](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/tommo)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/8 "2025-05-23T18:24:53Z")
But that is one of the most important topics! They don’t know what they missed
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### Author:  [@kgk](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/kgk)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/9 "2025-05-23T20:06:33Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/10 "2025-05-23T20:08:28Z")
> [@steve506](#):
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> I was wondering, has anything you’ve learned from the community expanded outside of guitar technique?
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.
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### Author:  [@eric\_divers](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/eric_divers)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/11 "2025-05-23T22:07:47Z")
I can’t wait for the new CTC book, _Malmsteen and Me: How One Way Economy Picking Will Make You Happier, Healthier, and Hotter_
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### Author:  [@Dissonant\_Timbres](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Dissonant_Timbres)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/12 "2025-05-24T14:34:42Z")
> [@eric\_divers](#):
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> 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 😂
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>
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### Author:  [@thecrimsonidol7](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/thecrimsonidol7)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2025, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/13 "2025-06-21T07:43:23Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@steve506](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/steve506)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/benefits-from-ctc-outside-of-guitar/87917/14 "2025-07-06T01:16:07Z")
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.