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If you'd known me when I was younger, what you would have known about me was that I was a French horn player.

I was really serious about it. In the run up to college, I practiced several hours every day.

My favorite piece to play was Duvorgiax New World Symphony.

In this piece, the horns had this way of lifting the mood from soft and sleepy to leaping in a live.

Here, just listen to this phrase.

I still think about what it felt like to be inside an orchestra and to perform that phrase.

But you know, when I was performing it, I very rarely practiced exactly that.

Instead to become good at it, I practiced scales. I played other types of music.

I ran drills to make my mouth move faster. Your mouth had to move so fast in that piece of music.

I took up running to build my lung capacity.

In the sum of all that practice, well that became a performance that I took pride in.

I thought about this a lot while I was reading at Wardo Bersinho's new book.

It's called The Performance Paradox, turning the power of mindset into action.

The books accrash course in the specifics of how we actually get better at things.

At Wardo studied at Stanford with the pioneer of growth mindsets, Carol Dweck.

We talk about this a lot on our show, about Carol and her work, about the idea that people with a growth mindset believe they can improve it things.

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