Embracing Failure

Maybe you've seen the Will Smith video, Fail Early, Fail Often, Fail Forward?

As an advancing musician (or any other artistic or creative practitioner), you must always reach just beyond your abilities and experience. Seeking the edges and pushing the envelope is equally exciting and terrifying and it is the only way to improve.

Making mistakes must be not only an accepted part of the process, but welcomed. Mistakes are opportunities. Chances to identify and improve. And failures and mistakes lead to further discoveries.

Don't shy away from challenges, embrace them. Recognize your failures, identify the source, improve your skills and keep pushing. The path to progress is not easy, but it;s worth it!