John Cena Shares the Secret Motive Behind Getting Piano Lessons at 40 Years of Age: “I Have to Get Over That Fear”

John Cena started taking piano lessons at 40 years old. Often, a person learns to play a musical instrument because it fascinates them, they want to learn a new skill or some other reason. But for him, it was to overcome his fear of stage fright. He has wrestled live in front of thousands of people. Still, he has stage fright. Sounds odd, right?

He detailed that his stage fright stems from the fact that he gets nervous while playing a musical instrument in front of a room full of people. During an interview, he mentioned how he overcame his fear. He even discussed the minute details of his story and revealed the entire experience was life-changing for him.

WWE icon and Hollywood star John Cena has performance anxiety

While having a Conversation with MTV News’ Josh Horowitz, ‘The Cenation Leader’ pointed out the fact that he has performance anxiety. Whenever he plays anything in front of a crowd, he gets nervous. So overcoming this fear of failing to deliver in front of people motivated him to take up piano lessons.

“So I have to get over that fear and that’s me trying to get over that fear. And that wasn’t perfect. I failed. I didn’t play to the standard that I see in my head, but I also was better than the last time I did that in public, the last time that I played piano that was randomly just there. So like of course you learn from failure, you know you don’t learn much from success at all,” he said.

He humbly admitted that though he has been learning to play the piano for six years, he still has a long way to go in order to perfect his skills, and the failures that he faces while overcoming his fear drive him to improve consistently. He also pointed out the importance that failures play in the journey to success.

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He once admitted that playing piano keeps his mind sharp and soothes his soul. But how did his journey of playing piano begin?

Cena’s piano journey began on a movie set

‘The Champ’ is a movie actor. And there is a lot of time to spare between filming different movie scenes. Therefore, he figured it would be best for him to use the time to learn a new skill.

Instead of scrolling his phone or choosing to relax, he decided to take up piano lessons.

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He stated, “There’s a lot of waiting on movie sets. So I figured I’d get a keyboard and in between the waiting, I’d try to learn to play the piano.” He mentioned that his end goal in mind is to be a perfect piano player so he can flex in front of anyone, anytime.

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