Cage Rules
From charlesreid1
John Cage's 10 Rules for Students and Teachers:
1. Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for awhile.
2. General duties as a student - pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students.
3. General duties as a teacher - pull everything out of your students.
4. Consider everything an experiment
5. Be self-disciplined - this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
6. Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.
7. The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It is the people who do all the work all the time who eventually catch onto things.
8. Do not try to create and analyze at the same time They're different processes.
9. Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It is lighter than you think.
10. We are breaking all the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X qualities.
Always be around.
Come or go to everything.
Always go to classes.
Read everything you can get your hands on.
Look at movies carefully and often.
Save everything - it may come in handy later.