Are you a musician who sometimes feel you’re not good enough..who sometimes feel lousy about yourself? Well, I was just reading this journal, and this struck me:
” Musicians need refined auditory and cognitive skills to listen and understand music, motor skills to interact with their instruments (often involving high-speed coordination and timing precision far beyond that normally required in everyday life or other professions), the ability to plan and structure their practice sessions, specific skills associated with sight-reading, improvisation, memory, intonation and expression, social skills to interact with other ensemble musicians, the ability to overcome and manage performance anxiety, and detailed knowledge of their specific instrument.”
I’m like, wow, I didn’t know musicians have so many unique abilities…so, musicians, you should hold your head up high and praise God for the specific giftings He has given you and stop beating yourself silly for other minute failings in your life.
Ref: Guetl, C. & Parncutt, R. (2008). An Interactive Tool for Training and Testing Musical Auditory Skills. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008 (pp. 5229-5237). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.