Bobby McFerrin Live

Try this at home. Give yourself an hour. Maybe two.

Type "Bobby McFerrin Live" on YouTube.

Scroll. Pick any videos. It doesn't matter which ones.

Maybe you'll choose Bobby improvising for ten minutes.

Maybe you'll watch Bobby jamming with Chick Corea or Wayne Shorter or Yo-Yo Ma or Esperanza Spalding.

Maybe you'll catch him leading the audience at a neuroscience conference in singing the pentatonic scale. Or a leading a full choir in multi-part harmony. Or providing rhythm for a teenage boy singing "Route 66."

Maybe you'll stumble across him singing Blackbird, while also "playing" the bass and drums and the guitar solo and singing all the echoes: "Into the light...light...light...of the dark...dark...dark...black...black...night...night..."

Or perhaps you'll catch him telling the story of how he first started performing. How he spent six years (!) practicing before he want on stage, two of which he didn't listen to any vocalists to ensure his style was unique.

Whatever you watch, notice how you feel. Notice how you feel lighter. How you feel more alive. More energized. More in tune with yourself and the world. More love. More compassion. More human.

Capture that feeling. That humanity. Embrace it. Embody it. Take it with you wherever you go.

And then share it with every person you meet.