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Emily Allen

Failure...

May 10, 2012 at 3:50 AM

It's the one thing that is hard to understand as a musician. How can we "fail" at something we love? It's like failing at watching TV or eating chocolate cake. But the fact is that failure presents us with the oportunity to improve and we are faced with some tough questions to answer before improvement can begin:

Why did I fail?
How am I going to fix it?
Who are the best people to have help me fix this problem?

Unfortunately, the answers to these questions aren't always the answers we want to hear. Failure can make us realize things that we never wanted to realize. So what do we do with these realizations? How do we use them to help prevent failing again? Well, I honestly don't know the answer to that...but I will let you all know if I ever figure it out.

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