Fifty-Five Seconds

I can recite in thirty seconds the most important things that, for decades, I taught and modeled in the music room:
 
Big Singing:
   No hands on face.
   No screaming.
   Open mouth.
   Move lips.
   Move tongue.
 
Learning a new song:
   Read.
   Listen.
   Sing.
   Sing your best.
 
S.T.A.R."
   Sit like you’re smart.
   Know when to start and stop.
   Track the talker.
   Ask and answer questions.
   Do respectable things and people will respect you.
 
“If you can’t say it, you can’t play it.
 
“The music you perform must travel through your heart.”

If you include Dr. Covey’s seven habits of highly effective people, it comes in under fifty-five seconds.
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   Be proactive. 
   Begin with the end in mind. 
   Put first things first.
   Think win-win.
   Seek first to understand, then to be understood. 
   Synergize.
   Sharpen the saw.
 
Albert Einstein once said, “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

My variation on his theme was, “If you can't explain it simply in fifty-five seconds, you haven’t lived it well enough.”

What do you need to explain to someone?

How many seconds does it take you to do that?