If you're working on something, let's say a piano piece for your upcoming recital, and you are so worried and fearful that you think you should just stop all together,
you're doing it wrong.
Why worry about failure when you haven't even "failed" at it yet?
Yeah, so maybe in the past you haven't done perfectly, but who's perfect?
Nobody.
Anyways,
chances are if you try and practice over and over again, not giving up,
you're probably not going to fail at whatever you are striving for.
If you have a problem with stage fright (like I do), think about this statement that my teacher told me in the past:
It is not to impress, but to express.
The whole point, especially in music, shouldn't be about you and how you look in front of others, but about how you express the music and the story it's telling.
So if you just focus on that,
you'll be fine!
Now I just have to go and listen to my own advice...
Wish me luck!
But seriously.
you're doing it wrong.
Why worry about failure when you haven't even "failed" at it yet?
Yeah, so maybe in the past you haven't done perfectly, but who's perfect?
Nobody.
Anyways,
chances are if you try and practice over and over again, not giving up,
you're probably not going to fail at whatever you are striving for.
If you have a problem with stage fright (like I do), think about this statement that my teacher told me in the past:
It is not to impress, but to express.
The whole point, especially in music, shouldn't be about you and how you look in front of others, but about how you express the music and the story it's telling.
So if you just focus on that,
you'll be fine!
Now I just have to go and listen to my own advice...
Wish me luck!
But seriously.
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