Charles Mingus teaches you how to toilet train your cat. Read here.

Charles Mingus was a world famous bassist and jazz composer. You don’t expect an icon in music to write such a pedestrian, and absurdly well thought out playbook on toilet training — or do you?

It makes perfect sense to me that a jazz musician should have such an interest. Jazz is about experimentation, testing, observation, making predictions, and studying outcomes — musically. Why shouldn’t these skills be used to toilet train a cat?

You and I have skills that transcend our professions that make us able to do many things and pursue many interests. Be like Mingus, and don’t limit your curiosity.