Comments on: The Peak-Performance Myth http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/performance/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: OUPblog » Blog Archive » Excelling Under Pressure http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/performance/#comment-285398 OUPblog » Blog Archive » Excelling Under Pressure Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:31:00 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=5763#comment-285398 [...] Vollmer epitomizes the fascination with craft that motivates athletes and musicians to work. And when they work mindfully, regardless of whether they win medals, performers go forward knowing that they’re doing their best. Gerald Klickstein (@klickstein) is author of The Musician’s Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness (Oxford 2009) and posts regularly on The Musician’s Way Blog. Director of the Music Entrepreneurship and Career Center at the Peabody Conservatory, he previously served for 20 years on the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His prior contribution to the OUP blog is titled “The Peak-Performance Myth.” [...] [...] Vollmer epitomizes the fascination with craft that motivates athletes and musicians to work. And when they work mindfully, regardless of whether they win medals, performers go forward knowing that they’re doing their best. Gerald Klickstein (@klickstein) is author of The Musician’s Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness (Oxford 2009) and posts regularly on The Musician’s Way Blog. Director of the Music Entrepreneurship and Career Center at the Peabody Conservatory, he previously served for 20 years on the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His prior contribution to the OUP blog is titled “The Peak-Performance Myth.” [...]

]]> By: Mark Rudoff http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/performance/#comment-225785 Mark Rudoff Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:39:03 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=5763#comment-225785 Thanks once again, GK, for articulating an important point about professionalism. Too often I see students blocked from getting work done because they are sidetracked by a chimeric search for peak performance. In sports, the true professionals are the ones who can deliver -- and win -- on the days when they do not have their best stuff. In "Playing Off the Rail," author David McCumber describes the state of "being in dead stroke," the way pool players talk about being in the zone. But the point, for guys who make their living shooting pool, is that the dead stroke state is rare. A professional relies on hard-won technique, intelligence and experience to win, and accepts as a gift the days of being in dead stroke. Thanks, as always, for Musician's Way. Thanks once again, GK, for articulating an important point about professionalism. Too often I see students blocked from getting work done because they are sidetracked by a chimeric search for peak performance. In sports, the true professionals are the ones who can deliver — and win — on the days when they do not have their best stuff. In “Playing Off the Rail,” author David McCumber describes the state of “being in dead stroke,” the way pool players talk about being in the zone. But the point, for guys who make their living shooting pool, is that the dead stroke state is rare. A professional relies on hard-won technique, intelligence and experience to win, and accepts as a gift the days of being in dead stroke.

Thanks, as always, for Musician’s Way.

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