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Performance Anxiety

How quickly can we lose a mental skill?

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Noah Smith
Sep 05, 2021
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As a young musician, performances made me extremely nervous. No matter how well I knew the music, no matter how beautifully I could play it at home or in rehearsal, when the concert or audition day came around, I was an anxious mess and never executed on stage as well as I knew I could. I don’t remember any true disasters, but my best musical moments …

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