Pages with label: learning from mistakes

One of the most important life lessons I have learned as a piano teacher is not to correct every mistake. At first, this may sound paradoxical. Isn’t that precisely why a student comes to a lesson? Yet correcting mistakes can consume entire lessons, months, and sometimes even years. It brings no joy to the teacher and even less to the student. Most importantly, it often fails to bring about genuine change. When I focus all my attention on the mistake, I lose sight of the real objective: what I want the student to achieve. The student begins to fixate on what went wrong and to become afraid of making mistakes, instead of...