In a message dated 4/24/2001 6:05:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dredeman@y... writes: dredeman@y... writes:
<< I once talked to a teacher of parachute jumping and he told me, that if you jump and you see a tree, or a brook, you should not look at it. If you continue looking at it, you will land exactly in that tree or brook, whereas if you look at some nice place to land, all will go well. Just another way of saying that I agree it is very wrong to think about the things that might go wrong.>>
as some golf instuctor on television once said "the sub-conscious mind doesn't know the difference between a fear and a request".
<<You also wrote: 'You have to tell yourself how good you are before you sing - you have to pump yourself up.'
However, I think there also is a deeper psychological reason, why some people (or maybe all of us, once in a while) may start to think bad about ourselves, shortly before the moment you have to prove yourself in front of an audience. If you suffer from the combination of superiority and inferiority feelings (and many artistic people do), you might often have a unrealistic image of your own qualities, just to compensate for your hidden inferiority feelings. As is the case with compensation mechanisms like that, they might very well fail at the moment you need them most, leaving you with the other side of your smaller or bigger neurosis, inferiority feelings.>>
in between 'inferior' and 'superior' lies 'mediocre'. what has become commonplace to someone who has been working on a project, in depth, over a long period of time, may be a complete revelation to someone to whom the material is new. to attempt to culminate all that work, over such a long period of time, into one performance is not possible. what is more likely is to show whatever aspect is working on that day, to show just one layer of the onion rather than the whole plant (borrowing from hesse). biting off more than one can chew is certainly nerve racking. the opposite is doing something that is unquestionably doable, leaving room for more if things go well.
mike
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