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Tag: Perseverance

Posted on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021

Failure and effort

I'm a perfectionist. That means I have an irrational fear of failure. Engage if you're relatively confident you can win--or, at the very least, not…

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Posted on October 31, 2020October 28, 2020

Thirty minutes

The difference between being a well-read person--someone who reads a significant number of books in their lifetime--and someone who doesn't is thirty minutes per day.…

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Posted on September 29, 2020September 29, 2020

Failure, the coach

High performers tend to hate failure. Some of them hate it so much, they will deliberately not engage if they feel there is a decent…

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Posted on September 12, 2020September 11, 2020

Make a plan

My brilliant choral director in high school, Marcia Yost, had several catch phrases that I still remember. One was, "Don't forget your pieces and your…

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Posted on September 9, 2020September 8, 2020

Focused practice

We'd all like to skip to the part where we're awesome. We all enjoy the feeling of competence. It's much more fun to play an…

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