Think of the time spent practicing sleight of hand and the improvements that can be achieved, well this applies to performance in exactly the same way… it’s a skill.
When performing you are integrating many challenging and complex elements. You are also making discoveries about yourself, them and magic itself—the key is to do lots of it and make as many discoveries as you can. This is NOT easy, and everyone has a different experience of it.
You don’t want to avoid mistakes or issues, otherwise there is nothing to learn from. By ‘doing’ you will encounter a plethora of niggles and problems, everyone does, it’s not only unavoidable… it’s desirable and essential for growth.
Change the way you think about the short term nature of dissatisfaction, friction, frustration or anxiety into something positive and beneficial for the long term.
These feelings are actually highly specialized gifts; ones only available to those who dare to try and only useful to those who see their value.
Ben Earl, The Family Discord post, August 10, 2022
Practice and Performance
