What does art have to do with the soul?

[psychosako]

What does art have to do with the soul? What a pretentious as fuck question. I don’t even know that I want to dignify it with an answer. Ugh.

Is artistic ability learned or inherent?

I grew up drawing in public, my pencil on the paper, and I’ve heard it all. “Did you draw that? I wish I could draw. I can’t even draw a stick figure.” Before art

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[labrynthos]

The Talent Code by David Coyle speaks to this. It's a very good book

[psychosako]

" instead of playing a piece of music poorly straight through, will instead stop for each mistake and drill over and over and over and over until they have perfected it before moving on."

you know, not everyone is like that. while i do occasionally drill moves in poi, or tough dance choreography, or a song that is a hell of a tongue twister, I learn far faster if i just keep going through the sequence. I might goof it, sure, but i find that sometimes, i will unwittingly level up just goofing around. Like last month, i unconsciously did anti-spin flowers by doing freeform practice.

[labrynthos]

The rate and point at which one stops to drill through a mistake would probably depend upon the skill being practiced and certainly it need not be all the time. It doesn't seem like spinning poi would benefit from that. The example I gave is better explained in the book, where the author found that kind of incremental drilling to be practiced by the world's best classical musicians. It's a bit much to summarize, he makes the distinction between types of practice that make one better, and types of practice that make one among the best. The methodology differs between them, but of course outliers will always exist