1. Can you hear your own music in your own imagination with your own musical ideals?
2. Has this musical encounter exposed your own unsolved technical difficulties and challenges?
3. Do you lack clarity and literacy of this musical situation?
4. Is your presumptuous ego preventing you from being honest with yourself?
5. Do you fear not being able to do that which you have not been able to understand?
6. Have you spent enough time training accurately and consistently?
7. Are you impatient? Are you distrustful? Do you lack conviction?
8. Is your ability to hear lacking because you are not listening in order to hear? Is this is preventing you from meaning and clarity?
9. Do you understand these problems are opportunities to develop and refine your own artistic curiosities and aesthetic?
10. Is your conviction to define your work and perform something you believe in?
– JC Heisler