Something that helped me when I started my flatpicking journey was learning to play mandolin.
The mandolin forced me to re-evaluate right hand techniques and develop the skills I needed that were directly transferable to guitar(unbeknown to me at the time).
After a year or so of working at simple fiddle tunes, I was delightfully surprised one day to find myself hammering out tunes I learned on mandolin with the guitar.
Old habits die hard and sometimes a new,fresh approach on a different instrument will transcend old bad habits developed earlier on a different "tool".
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