Chapter Summary: Chapter 12 offers advice to singers may face in a professional career.
Taking responsibility is the most important step to take when pursuing a professional career. When singers know themselves and their abilities they are better able to make decisions that are in their best interest. Taking responsibility for your own actions, and learning will help you manage your professional career.
As singers we should maintain a sense of being flexible and open to suggestions that come from conductors or directors. We should try to process their advice and apply it to ourselves as long as it doesn't compromise our integrity and character.
Knowing ourselves is also important when it comes to turning down opportunities. We must be able to self-regulate our preparedness, and if we are unable to do a task, we should exercise the right of saying no to those opportunities.
In a working environment we must treat others with kindness and respect. When we do this, we develop a good reputation throughout the music world, which in turn may benefit us.
Key Terms: Take responsibility,
Key Concepts: "Fear of negative consequences often keeps us from claiming responsibility for our actions.", Don't mark the herald!
Making Connections: I felt like a lot of this chapter was repetition from the previous chapter. Also, I found it sad that he had to highlight the idea of being a generous colleague. It seems like this idea would be common sense to most.
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