Dave Evans

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2,777 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6 Jul

Dave Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Hidden Brain · Radical Acceptance · 4 May 2026 podcast

She says, no, no, no, that's not my problem.

Well, what's your problem?

Well, my problem is how do I tell my boyfriend?

I know what the piano requires and it requires everything I've got.

I don't think I can be in love with the piano and a man at the same time.

So I'm going to break up with my boyfriend and I don't think he's going to understand.

And I went, oh, that's a different problem.

So here we had a person who really had three things going on.

I've got the doctor and my parents' expectations.

I've got the artist and my relationship with the piano.

And then I've got the, is my piano psyche and my romantic psyche able to co-resign?

What did you choose to do?

To my knowledge, she went to Juilliard and she told me she was going to break up with a boyfriend.

How that went, I don't know.

And whether or not she eventually got to the place where she believed that she could both be in relationship with a piano and a person, I didn't learn.

But I've always been incredibly respectful of Stina's story because the honesty she had with herself, I rarely find.

Yeah, we call it coherency.

It's one of the places you can experience meaning-making, and we describe coherence, a coherent person, as one for whom who I am, what I'm doing,

And what I believe in are lined up and interconnected.

So one of the first steps in becoming a coherent person is articulating what those things actually mean to you.

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