Jun 16, 2026 · 51 min · 10 segments
n this episode, flutist, teacher, and mindset coach Chelsea Tanner joins your newly mindful host to talk about the various ways musicians get their minds into a tizzy, and what to do about it…
Chelsea TannerGuestRobert BosworthHostWhat is the prevailing bugaboo? If you had to say there's one thing that you encounter most in life, or across the board with your students with things you got to work on with their mindset, what would that be? Since we're starting light here.

It's funny, the student who's taking the six-hour AP physics test this week has also never gotten below a five on any AP test, and I'm just in awe of this person.

You know, I think their capacity or their idea of what their capacity is, is bigger than others.

Oh, did you do your, your, you know, technical exercises? Oh, no, I had to study.

And I think that, you know, I don't think that it should be one or the other, but I think it's these students who have a both and approach where there's never really going to be a time.

And so to have the capacity, I think that's the biggest thing, the mental capacity, just how they think about things like that.

It's really impressive to in some students where they just never make an excuse.
Do you think that's something that can be taught or is it just something that is more...
What is the prevailing bugaboo? If you had to say there's one thing that you encounter most in life, or across the board with your students with things you got to work on with their mindset, what would that be? Since we're starting light here.

It's funny, the student who's taking the six-hour AP physics test this week has also never gotten below a five on any AP test, and I'm just in awe of this person.

You know, I think their capacity or their idea of what their capacity is, is bigger than others.

Oh, did you do your, your, you know, technical exercises? Oh, no, I had to study.

And I think that, you know, I don't think that it should be one or the other, but I think it's these students who have a both and approach where there's never really going to be a time.

And so to have the capacity, I think that's the biggest thing, the mental capacity, just how they think about things like that.

It's really impressive to in some students where they just never make an excuse.
Do you think that's something that can be taught or is it just something that is more...
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