205: Unlock Your Potential By Understanding Your Mind, with Nick Bottini

Today we're talking with Nick Bottini, a career and performance coach who has worked with high performers from around the world including child prodigies, competition winners, rock stars, entrepreneurs, international sportspeople and elite music college students. Nick is the author of Just Play: The Simple Truth Behind Musical Excellence, a best-selling book which challenges the current thinking on performance psychology and offers a fundamentally different way of thinking about the experience of learning music and how to achieve our full potential.

Nick's teaching is deep. Depending on your background it may seem very odd, or it may be exactly what you've been desperate to hear someone put clearly into words.

His successful techniques are rooted in long-standing spiritual traditions yet there's no dogma or belief system required to benefit from these ideas. Nick brings it all home to roost with practical ways to shift your mindset and successfully achieve the musical levels you desire.

As well as some deep and profound ideas, we also make sure to cover the very practical implications of it all in the context of learning music.

For example we talk about:

• Why most musicians never feel fully settled or at home in their musical lives or identity as a musician, and how that relates to performance anxiety and impostor syndrome.

• The "elephant in the room" when it comes to modern performance psychology - and what the alternative is.

• Two unorthodox but effective ways to flip how you approach music practice - and, unlike some of what you may have heard on this show in the past, this is not about "enjoying practice more"

The lessons in this episode can positively affect not just your musicality and musical potential, but your life and potential in general. That's why we're so excited to share this with you! Enjoy.

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Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 205

Links and Resources

• Nick Bottini Online

• Nick Bottini - "Just Play: The Simple Truth Behind Musical Excellence"

• Musicality Now - How to Stop Doubting and Start Performing, with Brent Vaartstra

• Musicality Now - More Mindful, More Musical, with Susanne Olbrich

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