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The focus of this blog is to explore the practices, attitudes and motivations of successful artists and musicians in the autumn of life.
  1. How to practice: exploring strategies and tactics in an aging body through book reviews, interviews, personal anecdotes, with the goal of  staying happy, healthy and focused.
  2. Attitude: what it is a good attitude, how does helps us to learn and persevere,  which daily tactics help  us to acquire or keep a good one, what to do if yours needs a tune up?
  3. Metacognition: what it is, what it can teach us about learning, resources for study, conferences, and in practice.
  4. Intrinsic motivation: what it is, how it helps us to learn and persevere as we age, how to help those we mentor with theirs.
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Metacognition and Effective Rehearsals and Better Gigs

1/7/2017

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"Metacognition - Wikipedia
Metacognition is "cognition about cognition", "thinking about thinking", or "knowing about knowing" and higher order thinking skills. It comes from the root word "meta", meaning beyond. It can take many forms; it includes knowledge about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or for problem solving."

In short, taking responsibility for our own learning to avoid the following.

“Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence” (2003).  They found that “people tend to be blissfully unaware of their incompetence,” lacking “insight about deficiencies in their intellectual and social skills.”  They identified this pattern across domains—from test-taking, writing grammatically, thinking logically, to recognizing humor, to hunters’ knowledge about firearms and medical lab technicians’ knowledge of medical terminology and problem-solving skills.  In short, “if people lack the skills to produce correct answers, they are also cursed with an inability to know when their answers, or anyone else’s, are right or wrong”. https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/metacognition/

This short article is worth a quick read and a moment of reflection. The authors present several helpful suggestions to help us grow as learners (musicians). I will leave you with this strategy which I've adapted for musicians.

"How did the gig go last night?"
"I don't know, but I made a recording off the bandstand. Let's listen and discuss the results at the next rehearsal"

Competence or incompetence exposed. To grow as humans, we got to man up to the truth. Or woman up as the case may be.

Cheers,

​David Story
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