Value of Mistakes and Failure
As a piano teacher one thing that I singled out that makes me different from a lot of my predecessors as a piano teacher because if you think about the structure of that it is you do it right or else. So my method of teaching piano is I teach them to get out there and make mistakes and survive. So in the recital, I encourage them to try to make mistakes which then, of course, they don’t as much. I don’t want anybody to freeze to the point that they quit and they never play music again. My goal as a teacher is to get them to survive failing recognize that every other person in the entire world is failing and fearing failing just as much as they are and to make your contribution you have to take a risk you have to put yourself out there.