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on 2006-08-24 by sansfaim

The Art of Possibility

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I decided to take a little break from reading catastrophe memoirs, and I picked up The Art of Possibility, by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander.

Benjamin Zander, a conductor, explains a technique—“giving an A”— he used in his class on the Art of Musical Performance. From experience, he knew his students would be so anxious about their grades that they wouldn’t take risks—yet taking risks was essential to their mastery.

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Aristotle or St. Therese or Martin Seligman or

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Aristotle or St. Therese or Martin Seligman or

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ing idea around the same time, so it hits me with

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were after they switched doctors. In every

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It can be hard to be myself, to acknowledge what I really enjoy -- it can be easy to let lofty fantasies get in the way. Again, I ask, why is it so tough to "Be Gretchen"?

If I pretend to myself that I’m different from the way I truly am, I’m going to make choices that won’t make me happy.

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