Play Louder

A friend recently told me she's taken up the piano again after a hiatus of several years. And in the practice she has returned to she has rediscovered:

• a joy she'd forgotten

• a capability enhanced (she sees a positive change in cognition) and

• her creativity has grown too

But another thing she spoke about struck me: when she sat with her teacher for the first time and played, the teacher commented on her technical ability and then said, "but why do you play so softly? Play louder!"

It was in that moment my friend realized that the soft (i.e. tentative) way she played was how she did many things. How she ran projects; showed up to meetings; attended her performance review

We had a wonderful discussion about how often we are tentative due to self doubt or lack of confidence and how being stronger isn't always the required course of action but neither s playing softly...

So where in your life could you be playing louder?