058 - Mike Cerreto

This week certified sports psychologist and rehabilitation specialist Mike Cerreto joined us from his A Talented Mind clinic in Richmond, VA.  Recently, Mike has also started working with classical musicians, and has confirmed and debunked some of the lines drawn between the two domains.



Mike and Laurel are now collaborating on an exciting new resource for percussionists about our own mental styles, which will release in 2017.



Topics: mental styles, musicians' myths about performance anxiety, FB questions



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0:00 Intro and hello

2:00 Diagnostic Test for Performing Artists

3:49 Mike Cerreto’s background and the gap with music psychology

6:07 Building profiles for norm groups of successful musicians

8:01 Characteristics the test measures

9:35 FB: What’s the most common worry or problem you see among musicians?

15:00 Music vs. sports – public performance

18:39 Nicolai Dahl and Sergei Rachmaninoff

21:35 Brian Blume: Have you ever encountered some common myths or misconceptions that musicians or athletes often believe with regard to the mental aspects of performance?

26:15 Fighting comparison, perfectionism, and the need to please everyone

29:33 Scheduling recovery time just like practice time

37:08 Pre-practice and pre-performance routine to avoid nervousness

48:36 Will James: Many of the similarities between sports psychology and music performance psychology have been pointed out, but what would you say are the differences?

51:32 What is a musical performance?

55:19 Outward and uplifting process (music) vs. tearing down process (sports)

1:04:14 Competition

1:07:29 Wrap