If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.

Music study presents a natural, here-and-now route to selfknowledge and self-integration.

Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.

Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear

[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.

If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected.

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.