Often times while practicing I will find myself frustrated with a certain part of pieces that I am practicing for. I would try and try again at the part of the piece that was giving me trouble and yet not be able to play it, becoming increasingly more frustrated with every attempt. When I become too frustrated I have to set my instrument aside and collect myself. Not only during practice, but also during my lessons too, to which my violin teacher would have to remind me that being frustrated would get me nowhere. I know being frustrated does not help, but when I cannot play a certain part of a piece I am playing that I know for a fact that I have played before, I get frustrated anyways. After cooling down I try the passage again until I get it right, knowing I will not be able to pause my practice until I know for a fact that I can still play the specific passage, potentially getting frustrated again and entering a vicious cycle. This feeling of not being able to rest that happens so often during practice mirrors the Failing is Hard but Learning is Easy article in that I know what I want to be able to do, I know that I have done said thing before, and yet being unable to play a specific part that I have before tends to frustrate me greatly. I attribute frustration to when I play poorly because when I play poorly in front of my teacher, he points out where I went wrong and I feel stupid for failing to see what was on the page and for failing to play the piece properly.

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