You Must Always Overshoot

The thing you do best, you do substantially less well than you imagine. This isn't an accusation or a prognostication. It is an inevitability. It's because we rate ourselves on our intentions, not our results. "I am a good, competent musician, and I play in tune. I ensure this by aiming to play in tune. On occasions when I play slightly out of tune, it's forgivable because, hey, mistakes happen. Nobody's perfect! I am still a good musician who plays in tune because I aspire to play in tune!" No. You're not. You're substantially less in tune than you imagine. Because you are not your aspiration, you are your result, and you ignore your failure. And so you play out of tune a lot, which is what crap musicians do! This isn't just a psychological quirk. Accomplishment is weird, and we're poorly prepared for it. One needs to overshoot, and maintain that framing ad infinitum. Which is really weird...and explains a lot! once wrote that: Amateur musicians sometimes play out of tune. This is…