Good morning family.!
I have not been very active cause of my exams.
Hope you are fine and your day is going well?
I want to talk about competition today.
As an instrumentalist, you have to deal with competition cause it limits of the you and doesn't allow you get to the your very best.
I will share a short story on how a guy missed a life changing opportunity cause of "competition"...
He was a good pianist and was always ready to learn. He spent quality time on rehearsal everyday and it helped him a lot. Now he had a friend that was also a pianist and was ready to teach him as a good friend.
After 9 months, he became so good that he played for his church state headquarters. He had pianists he wanted to be like but he had a spirit of competition and it was grooming it the wrong way.
Now that his friend that always taught him was now playing in a big church and was better than he was. He never wanted to go to to his friends church cause he saw himself as the better person and taught he should be there.
Now his friends church had an event and he was invited to play alongside his friend. He accepted to play but was not happy he won't be the main pianist. He attended the event an played alongside his friend although he was seeing it as a competition cause he wanted to outshine his friend. After the praises, he went out cause he said he wasn't comfortable on the second piano. That was a lie- the actual reason he left was because he never had wanted to play the second piano.
Now the preacher came up and asked for the guys on the piano and said that he will love to sponsor them to go and school abroad. Now the guy had left and even when the preacher was told that the other other pianist left, his interest was out of the guy.
Now the guy missed out cause of he was competing with his friend and he allowed pride to set in........
Pls competition should be avoided as an instrumentalist so that you won't avoid those meant to lift you high....
Thanks for your time......
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