by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last Monday in Cleveland Ohio.\u00a0 I had been there before and never saw it as part of police psychology, or psychology at all.\u00a0 This time I did.<\/span><\/p>\n I never knew that The Beatles had 13 original albums and 237 original songs in 8-9 years, Taylor Swift was signed as a songwriter at age 14, or that so many rock singers had country singer Johnny Cash as a major influence on their music.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know a lot of what I saw, but there is one thing that stood out to me \u2014\u00a0 becoming a rock star wasn\u2019t all about talent.<\/span><\/p>\n You see there were some people who were overnight successes.\u00a0 Some that started their career, like the Beatles, and found something early.\u00a0 The Beatles started as kids, had one drummer who they were told by a studio was not very good and the studio wanted someone else to play drums for them. Then they found Ringo, but the studio didn\u2019t like him either even though they recorded the tracks.\u00a0 So, they re-recorded with a professional studio drummer.\u00a0 When they played the song for a panel of music lovers, the music lovers said they liked Ringo better and the four boys from Liverpool was born.\u00a0 You see, sometimes success is just chemistry, not all talent.<\/span><\/p>\n Still with other bands they produce numerous songs over years and persisted until they came up with a sound that people liked.\u00a0 That became their signature sound.\u00a0 So, persistence adds in there in the success equation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Too often people try to be overnight sensations and too often people give up the idea of being a rock star.\u00a0 People approach problems often by using logic to find a right solution and worry and worry about having the perfect solution, but really the perfect solution may take trying a few times and refining it over and over.\u00a0 The secret to success is to try things until you get lucky or the right chemistry, or the right combination until you are successful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The person who created the term Rock and Roll was a Cleveland DJ named Alan Freed.\u00a0 Alan Freed was turned on to rock by a record store owner who told him the classical music he was playing on the radio didn\u2019t fit what the kids were buying in his record store.\u00a0 Alan Freed adjusted his radio show to play the Rhythm and Blues that was becoming popular.\u00a0 He then called the term \u201cRock and Roll\u201d because it fit the genre better than Rhythm and Blues.\u00a0 His Dj nickname was \u201cMoondog.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He decided to throw a dance (the first rock and roll concert), which he decided to call the \u201cMoondog Coronation Ball.\u201d\u00a0 Tickets were a buck and a half each of which 28 cents was tax.\u00a0 The day was Friday March 21, 1951.\u00a0 Unfortunately, thousands of extra illegal tickets were printed and sold making the 10,000 Cleveland Arena filled with twice as many participants showing up for the Coronation Ball.\u00a0 The 10,000 persons that couldn\u2019t get into the arena, crashed the gates and made the ball into a freefall riot which the police quickly ended. \u00a0\u00a0A total failure in many minds, but someone saw it as an opportunity.\u00a0 They tried again and again and made the rock concert through persistence and adjustment.<\/span><\/p>\n We all get some things we call failures, whether it is fighting MS-13 or getting yelled at by our boss.\u00a0 If we make proper adjustments, we can turn the failure into success.\u00a0 Some people\u2019s strategy for breaking through an impasse is to think it through and maybe find best way in thought.\u00a0 Others try to produce something and adjust it, fixing it in process.\u00a0 Many times that is more successful than thinking of every alternative and working it through.\u00a0 The skier that never falls, never improves.\u00a0 Keep that in mind the next time you set a goal.\u00a0 Set the end goal and go out and fail if you have to, then adjust.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Site Administrator:\u00a0 Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D. ABPP<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Please share this article from down below.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Please join the email list on the top of the sidebar and you can get these sent to your email.\u00a0 Also follow me on Twitter (https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThinBlueMind<\/a>) for other articles and ideas, and YouTube at\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCfjNw0510ipr3bX587IvAHg<\/a> .<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police Psychology:\u00a0 Rock and Roll by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP \u00a0 I was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last Monday in Cleveland Ohio.\u00a0 I had been there before and never saw it as part of police psychology, or psychology at all.\u00a0 This time I did. 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