Is it Recess Yet? Confessions of a Former Child Prodigy

Dr. Noa Kageyama. "Focus on growth." On growth mindset versus fixed mindset and what we can learn from making music.

Episode Summary

Check out my 2018 podcast interview with performance psychologist, Noa Kageyama, where we learn what he meant at age 2 when he said "oa wike mugas"; what it was like to studying with Mr. Suzuki himself in Japan as a little kid, how inconsistency in his performances lead to his study of performance psychology at Juilliard; how performers can believe that performing poorly means we ‘suck’ as people; what he learned from daydreaming about winning the Lotto; the difference between the ‘critic’ versus the ‘coach’; his surprising reasons for starting his blog; why he’d tell his younger self to play more soccer; and how he answers the question “is it too late?” 

Episode Notes

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Noa Kageyama, Bulletproof Musician

Noa teaches at the Juilliard School

The Suzuki Method

Noa got a double degree at Oberlin

Don Greene, Ph.d, Performance Mastery Trainer

Seymour Bernstein, pianist and pedagogue

Ethan Hawke and his film about Seymour Bernstein

This is Your Brain on Jazz: Researchers Use MRI to Study Spontaneity, Creativity

Seth Godin

Alexander Technique

Hidden Brain: The Edge Effect

Ivan Galamian, legendary violin teacher of Itzhak Perlman among many others

Louis Persinger, legendary violin teacher of Yehudi Menuhin, among many others