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We've done your homework. You

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noise score. homes.com. We've

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done your homework. I'm

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Gretchen Rubin, and this is A Little Happier. I

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recently read a fascinating comment on

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X by Matthew Knowles, who is

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the father of legendary musicians Beyoncé

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and Solange, and who also managed

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their musical careers. He

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wrote, One thing I taught

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Beyoncé and Solange was to practice

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failure. We would practice how they'd

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respond if their microphone got cut

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off, if their shoes broke on

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stage, if the wrong song got

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queued up in their performance set. Anything

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can happen, and they were always prepared

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to have a response. I would

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like for you to consider the same

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lesson, whether you're a performer or artist

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or an entrepreneur or professional, practice how

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you'll respond in the event you fail.

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It's a skill that can and should

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be developed. This

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is a delicate balance. On

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the one hand, as Matthew Knowles points out,

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it's useful to recognize all the things that

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might go wrong and prepare. On

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the other hand, we don't want to

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catastrophize or upset ourselves by imagining failure

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or embarrassment in dozens of different ways.

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Nevertheless, I do think it can help us

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feel calmer and more confident if we ask

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ourselves, what might I do

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if something unexpected happens? What are the

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obvious things that can go wrong and how

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can I prepare? I

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thought of Matthew Knowles' approach recently when my

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husband Jamie and I went to a comedy

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show called The Garden of Laughs at Madison

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Square Garden. It was a

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comedy show that featured six well-known comedians

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and because it was a fundraiser to

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benefit the Garden of Dreams Foundation, all

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kinds of famous people participated in

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addition to the featured comedians who

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were people like Tracy Morgan, John

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Stewart, Bill Burr and Michael Che.

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In between the comedians, famous actors and sports

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figures would come on stage to introduce the

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next act. At one

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point, the three stars making the

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introduction seem to fumble in confusion.

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Is this a bit? I asked Jamie. We

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thought maybe it was part of the show,

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but no. Actor Edie

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Falco, who you may remember her from her

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role as Carmela Soprano in The Sopranos or

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Nurse Jackie from the show Nurse Jackie, she

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made it clear what was happening.

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The teleprompter wasn't working. These

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three people did not know what to do or what to

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say. Now this

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performance wasn't a big deal and

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we can't have a plan B for everything we do,

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but watching them up on stage made me think,

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if I ever use a teleprompter, I'm going

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to make sure I think about what I

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would do if the teleprompter fails.

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If Edie Falco doesn't know what to do in

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such a moment, I certainly wouldn't know what to

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do unless I thought about it first. It's

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good to think ahead. I'm

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Gretchen Rubin, and I hope this makes your week

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a little happier. TuneIn

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