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Why musical confidence disappears under observation

I can improvise beautifully alone in my room but the moment someone else is listening my mind goes blank and my fingers forget everything they know.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The witnessing presence of others triggers a collapse between authentic self and performed self.

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