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Countering Perfectionism

Countering Perfectionism

by Gerald Klickstein | Apr 10, 2010 | motivation, music performance, music practice, performance anxiety, wellness

“You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.” –Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist/conductor The Musician’s Way, p. 133 To practice music is to pursue perfection – or so we often hear. What nonsense. Rather, we...
Avoiding Avoidance

Avoiding Avoidance

by Gerald Klickstein | Oct 24, 2009 | creative process, creativity, motivation, music practice

Do you ever dodge your creative work? Say, your practice or writing time arrives, and you race off to do some chore. It might be a chore that you detest, but now it calls to you. Then, instead of refining your music, you start cleaning the house or doing whatever. If...
Getting Started

Getting Started

by Gerald Klickstein | Sep 15, 2009 | creative process, creativity, music practice, writing

“Take the action and the insight will follow.” -Anne Lamott, author The Musician’s Way, p. 107 Whether we plan to create a performance, composition, essay, or mousetrap, we have to launch our project and work on it regularly. But we all know that creative ventures...

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