Exploring Kodawari

We are two classical musicians exploring the many manifestations of kodawari in the world. Kodawari is a beautiful concept word from Japanese. Although difficult to translate succinctly, kodawari essentially means pursuing perfection in a craft. It is the pursuit of an ideal even though you realize you can’t arrive there. Kodawari is what drives musicians to spend countless hours in the practice room. It motivates a chef to make the perfect meal, a writer to suffer over their words, and a barista to craft the perfect drink. But it is also an approach to life. We want to read bo...

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Exploring Kodawari

Episodes (43)

Dec 25, 2025 2025 Reflections: Musical Flow, Carl Jung, & Being Skeptical of Skepticism
Jan 1, 2025 Lessons And Observations in 2024
Mar 5, 2023 Revisiting Kodawari

Exploring Kodawari

Dec 25, 2025
51¾ minutes
46 MB

This episode is another attempt to keep the podcast on life support. Like last year, our busy musician schedules (and lack of proper planning) made it difficult to publish several episodes throughout the year. With a few free days left in 2025 before some traveling, I gathered my thoughts and reflections from the year 2025 and tried to make them into this stream of consciousness style of episode. The first topic I talked about was my musical reflections from the year, with one of the primary ones being my thoughts about how psychological flow works, aka, that "being in...

Exploring Kodawari

2025 Reflections: Musical Flow, Carl Jung, & Being Skeptical of Skepticism

Exploring Kodawari

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