Yeah, I don't think my advice should be ignored. Maybe that's not what you meant, but I really think that it is good advice to lighten up on yourself. It can be very discouraging to hear the differences between your playing and the playing of the best musicians in the world, which is available to us through recordings. For some of us, discouragement is the enemy ("ah hell, I'll never play cello as well as Yo Yo Ma, so why bother?"). I think it's good to try to learn from people who are more skilled than ourselves, but the attitude is key; sometimes it can be destructive to the process to be too self-critical. That's all I meant.