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What self-taught craftspeople miss from traditional apprenticeship

I learned glassblowing from YouTube videos and I am good at it but I always feel like I am missing something that people who learned in person have.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Knowledge transmitted through screens lacks the subtle embodied wisdom that passes only through physical presence.

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