Shifting Your Mindset: Become a Better and Happier Musician

Learning to identify and shift your mindset can be one of the best ways to help you improve on your instrument and enjoy everything about music more - as well as the rest of your life. After reading the book "Mindset" by Carol Dweck a few years back I started to really examine my inner voice, and in particular what it was saying when it came to my musical abilities. I learned that I had a fixed mindset towards some aspects of musical development, in particular some of my technical playing abilities and where I was vs where I thought I should be. In this video I discuss 3 situations where I had to actively reshape my thinking from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset.