Is Self-Doubt Part of the Process?

jazzpianodad
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 03:23:33 +0000

More great posts in this thread.

I wanted to correct an error in my post yesterday, where I estimated that my son gets three rejections/no responses for every venue that books him on a tour. That was a total guess. When I asked my son, it turns out I was off by a factor of ten. He says it’s more like 30 to 1. Yikes, that’s a lot of rejection! In fairness, he says that’s mostly no response as opposed to express rejection. It would still be pretty daunting for me, but he seemed to treat it as just coming with the territory. I think maybe all the rejections he got applying to elite music programs in high school prepared him well for the real world. In any event, his attitude was that so long as he got enough positive responses to put together a good tour, he was happy.