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144. Developing Talent in Young People by Benjamin Bloom

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The Importance of Self-Concept in Music

The big fish little pond effect basically you compare yourself with your surroundings in terms of your ability to do something and if you're better than people in your surroundings then you tend to gain confidence. So what's going on with these kids basically is that they are for a long time in a situation where their self-concept is encouraged to be high because they realize that they're really good at piano compared to everyone else around them. They only gradually are getting exposed to these other people or what in small doses these other people who would challenge the assumption that they'rereally a person who's like that.

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