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Practicing, Part 3: Mind Games

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Dec 082004
 
Practicing, Part 3: Mind Games

Resistance to Doing Our Best Work

When we practice, and I include myself in this, we rarely do our very best work. We tend to play pieces over and over repeating many of our mistakes. We don’t do the things that help us really learn the pieces well because there seems to be something stopping us most of the time. read the rest
 Tagged with: fear, practice, resistance

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