Me: Ouch -- that was awful. Did you notice that GLARING MISTAKE I made? My Friends: No. We were just having fun enjoying the dances.
Eventually I stopped obsessing. On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Claire Baffaut via Callers < callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Ah yes! > Indeed it is a familiar feeling. So this pep talk is as much to myself as > it is to you. > > - Live performance means that there will be mistakes. > - It is not possible to learn anything without making mistakes. If you are > not making any, you're not learning. > - Identify a few things that could be done differently (just a few as you > cannot fix everything at once). > - Ask for gentle, objective feedback or suggestions. > - Once you've done these last two, forgive yourself. You'll do better next > time. > - Hopefully, you can look forward the next gig and I wish you that it goes > well and make you feel good. > > Cheers, > > Claire > > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Maia McCormick via Callers < > callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > >> So after a gig, I find myself haunted by one or two missteps from an >> evening — the rolling start that was a little muddy, the thing I didn’t >> teach clearly enough so the dancers never quite got it — even though the >> dancers adjusted and all had a good time, and I still had the hall’s trust >> and goodwill at the end of the evening. >> >> Is this a familiar experience for anyone? Assuming you’ve already learned >> the lesson to be learned there, how do you move past it and stop >> self-flagellating?Would love to hear some people’s thoughts! >> >> Cheers, >> Maia >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List Name: Callers mailing list >> List Address: Callers@lists.sharedweight.net >> Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/callers@lists.sharedweight.net/ >> >> > > > -- > *Claire* > > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Callers mailing list > List Address: Callers@lists.sharedweight.net > Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/callers@lists.sharedweight.net/ > > -- There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
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