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living. Okay guys, today we are starting the show on a stage. A stage changing it up, I love it.

As some of you may or may not know, in my past life, I actually used to want to be a concert pianist,

like as a job and this isn't at age eight or nine. This is at age 23 and you are pretty good too.

Aren't you playing at Carnegie Hall? Okay, I did play at Carnegie Hall, but in my opinion,

that was kind of a fluke, but anyways, the point is that I would go to a lot of concerts when I

was trying to pursue this and then I would play a piece, people would clap afterwards, I would get

off stage and nine times out of ten, I was crying. Cry, that was beautiful. I'm crying.

Eddie, that's very, very nice of you, but I wasn't crying because it was beautiful. I was crying

because I was so upset with myself at how badly I felt I had played. I was just so disappointed.

It was literally crippling. Oh, Yuna, like objectively, how bad could it have been if you were playing

at Carnegie Hall? And weren't you like practicing six or eight hours a day back then?

Well, ironically enough, at the time in my life, when I was the best I've probably ever been at piano

because I was practicing all day long, I felt the worst about my playing that I have ever felt

because I was so incredibly self-critical. And now, when I'm like horrible, like no offense to myself,

but I barely ever play, I play like half an hour a day and like post clips on Instagram and I'm like,

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