1. Can you hear yourself, hearing your own music, in your own imagination?
2. Has this musical encounter highlighted your unique technical difficulties and challenges that you have not yet solved?
3. Do you lack clarity and literacy in your understanding 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, what you have not been able to understand?
6. Have you spent enough time training consistently?
7. Are you impatient? Are you distrustful? Do you lack conviction?
8. Are you not hearing because you are not listening in order to hear? Is this preventing you from meaning?
9. Are you aware of the many opportunities to develop and explore your own artistic curiosities?
10. Can you define your own work? Can you fully commit and perform something you believe in?
– JC Heisler