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Originally Posted by Todd Tipton
I feel compelled to try to offer something useful here because I have so much empathy and compassion with the question.
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I think yours is a good contribution to the subject.
I suggest that for many human endeavours we can reduce the time and effort required to excel at a chosen endeavour by learning from the experience of others who have come before us and excelled at that endeavour. Those who excelled, and who have a good method for teaching others to also excel, provide a coherent trail of bread crumbs that allows one to progress more quickly than most would progress trying to excel on their own.
The more modest one's goals of achievement, the less one benefits from learning from the experience of those who came before us. If, for example, one's goal is to be good a fingerpainting, a thorough grounding in cubism isn't likely to be particularly useful in attaining that goal. It depends upon what level of achievement one wants and how one measures that achievement: one person's symphony is another person's noise.