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When Your Child Achieves Your Dreams But Loses Their Own Joy

I made my daughter practice piano four hours a day for twelve years and now she's a concert pianist but she told me last week that music feels like prison to her and I don't know what I've done.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You have successfully created excellence in a person who can no longer access their own relationship to that excellence.

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