John Wetmore argues that most people over-learn before practicing, creating false preparedness without progress. Real expertise requires external feedback from a coach or peer to identify blind spots and correct course, not just self-criticism and technical knowledge.
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Pick something you're amazing at in your head. Can be any— I don't care if it was like ballet when you were 6. How do we get really good at anything you are good at now? So where's the confusion? Like, why do we get stuck when we know the answer? And I think the little piece people fall into a little bit— training, learning, understanding what you're doing wrong, what you're doing right— that's certainly important. I find that a lot of people want to learn everything before they get started though. You know everything about everything, right? So you can train your face off, but if your mindset's crap and you're the one telling yourself what you think is going wrong, but you're the one not having the success, how good is it for you to train yourself, right? So having somebody around you to go like, nah, tweak this, hey, say that instead of this.