Pianists or influencers ? Aurelien Froissart and Julien Cohen share their secrets (ENGLISH EPISODE)

In this episode 2 of "French piano guys" podcast, viral pianists Aurélien Froissart and Julien Cohen meet up for an informal conversation in ENGLISH about music, content creation and fame. They share their biggest breakthroughs and failures, as well as origin stories. How did they decide to become professional pianists ? How did they end up doing viral videos on social media ? 00:00 Intro trailer 00:56 Are the videos fake or not ?? 08:31 How Aurelien got scammed in Mexico 11:00 Most common myths about how to be viral 19:58 Artist mindset VS Business mindset 22:00 No correlation between how hard you work and the number of views ?? 23:20 Biggest life epiphany of Aurelien 25:30 Unsuccessful videos 26:25 Robbing a bank 28:00 Exponential skills vs Logarithmic skills 31:15 Boxing vs Influencer boxing 33:44 Decision making 38:10 Difference between a choice and a decision 40:04 Aurelien’s origin story: how he started piano 45:45 Should you listen to people’s judgment of you or not ? 47:47 Parent’s job: to minimize risk ? 52:25 is it part of the teacher’s job to motivate the kids ? 53:30 Debate on motivation and education 1:00:15 How much will the new music influencers disrupt the classical music world ? 1:06:11 Is virality and having a big career the same thing ? 1:12:35 Julien’s origin story: from math to piano 1:22:30 the parallels between Aurelien and Julien’s stories 1:23:48 Difference between regret and making the same choice again 1:24:24 Julien’s flawed beliefs about the world 1:25:25 Aurelien always made the right choices 1:27:30 The danger of being too analytic 1:29:50 Aurelien’s story about the world of mainstream television 1:33:50 Comparison of television, TikTok and long form podcasts 1:36:40 Conclusion Outro