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When expensive art instruction feels useless

I spent a fortune on a workshop with a famous watercolor artist but I paint better when I ignore everything she taught me and I feel like I wasted my money and time

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The discovery that prestigious teaching may not serve individual artistic development creates cognitive dissonance about the value of expertise.

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