The Perfect Wrong Note - Learning to Trust Your Musical Self by William Westney

This book reinforces the idea that it is OK to make mistakes - a good thing, since I make a lot of them. Surprising how many musicians subscribe to the cult that mistakes in practice are bad. The best example in the book is that of a child learning to feed itself - they make a mess, and yet they learn how to be an expert in no time. To practice so carefully that no mistakes are made doesn't work for me as a practice technique. Better to play with energy and enthusiasm and plenty of wrong notes - then correct them.