Credit Where Credit Is Due

By Scott Coulter It's amazing how easy it is for us to deny ourselves the credit we deserve. I'm horrible about this! I shame myself so easily, it's ridiculous. And I'm far too hard on myself MOST of the time. I've always known this, and yet continue to do it more often than I want to admit (pardon me while I shame myself over my bad habit of shaming myself...). What got me started on this topic? I'm listening to a recording I made recently as I write this (just a demo recording, nothing major), pleasantly surprised with the way I played on it. I'm surprised, because I usually HATE hearing myself recorded. I usually avoid giving myself credit at all costs. I have a theory for why I have such loathing for hearing my own recorded work. While others simply hear the notes I actually played on a given recording, what I hear are all of the notes I MEANT to play but didn't. I hear all of the notes that I meant to play ever-so-differently-but-didn't-quite-land-right. I'm never this critical with what my bandmates play on a recording, just my own playing. There isn't anything remarkable about me in this regard. I think what I'm describing is something many of us are familiar with. But it got me to thinking about the special kind of shaming and self-attacking pattern that can go on with diabetes. Diabetes is a manageable disease, and that's a good thing. But I think it opens the door for a lot of overly harsh self-criticism and shaming, too. The disease can be managed, and our job i...
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