How the Things You Think about Backstage Could Carry over into Your Performance

Why is that in some performances, we're totally focused, and the critic in our head leaves us alone, and on other days, it's a total nightmare?

Research suggests that it might have a little something to do with what we think about in the moments leading up to the performance, and that we might be able to manage our nerves a little better if we engage in the right sort of mental script backstage.

How the Things You Think about Backstage Could Carry over into Your Performance

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