My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.
I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
Little things can make such a big difference during recording.
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.