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Scott Richardson recalls the role breathing plays in
achieving success as a leader. Yes, breathing, as in, “Don’t
forget to breathe.”
Scott recalls: My first mentor and music coach, Rodney
Mercado, never actually mentioned it. We never spoke
about it, and yet I noticed it, and I copied him and mod-
eled him.
Because when Mercado played an instrument, he was
taking some of the most extraordinarily deep breaths that
I’d ever heard a human being take. And so even though
he never mentioned it, I figured, if it works for him, I’m
going to do the same thing. And since then, I’ve learned
how important breath is to our energy, our focus, and
our concentration.
So, I would take a deep breath inward right before I
started to play the violin, and then I would breathe out as
I was bowing. And then as I changed the bow stroke, I
would take another breath, and so I would breathe in uni-
son with the music I was performing. I still do this to this
day.
Putting so much energy and
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