There may be a link between the skills needed to be a musician and how those apply to jobs other than being a musician. The author of the article says that they asked “top flight professionals” and stated that most referenced that they did have some past life as a musician. According to the author people said that music helped with skills such as “collaboration, the ability to listen, the power to focus on the present and the future simultaneously, and a way of thinking that separates disparate ideas.” This all sounds accurate if you’ve ever played an instrument, been in a band, or just wrote a song in general. It is stated by the author that “being a musician often paved the way to more creative ideas.”
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Paul Allen who is a co-founder of Microsoft and plays guitar as well. Allen says “playing guitar is a way to channel a different creative impulse.” in the article we see Woody Allen plays clarinet weekly in a jazz band. There is a lot of evidence that playing an instrument or being a musician in general can overall help your skills in many fields other than actually being a musician. The article is convincing in the sense that being a musician does not have much evidence of being a negative impact on people.