I watched this video yesterday and I started thinking about this behavior outside of video games (since I don’t play that much)
Are you someone who likes to hone their skills down to millisecond precision?
Are you someone who likes to innovate, and find new ways to solve old problems?
Which side do you think different brands fall into?
Are their certain musicians that you think fall into one of the categories more predominantly?
Obviously we all aren’t just one way or the other, but taking these extreme paradigms into consideration has given me some new insights into my own practice.
I’d like to be more innovative but it’s more challenging than honing which is basically just repetition. This is a good question and something I’ve been thinking about a lot as well. Lately I have made some progress on the innovative front but essentially these things seem to alternate from one to another no matter what I try, and that is OK too. It’s good to acknowledge these things at least
Yeah, I think they are both involved in learning and trying to become good at something! Personally, I think I often gravitate towards innovation, I like the rewarding feeling I get from thinking of a new way to do something that no one has yet. Because of this, it is often without meaning to that I find myself honing my skills, usually in the pursuit of the innovation “reward”.
They are definitely tied together, and we all need both.
I want to become better at honing, and learn to create goals for myself in this regard. I think I’ll yearn to learn honing more if I can come up with goals.
I’d argue though to have another type of result showing, having a voting result of two opposing sides averaged is a bit meaningless.
On topic; I’d definitely see myself more in the honing/repetition department, although I gotta admit that I do enjoy trying out some completely new branches elsewhere from time to time. Often times I feel like ‘pure’ repition is in some way impossible with artistic expression, you’re almost bound to discover new things, despite thinking you are staying in the same framework (?).
Hmm yeah it was just a somewhat unfinished thought. Sure, of course there is repetition, duh. There are many, many, many small processes that get repeated all the time with artistic work.
I was mostly just thinking about repetition itself leading to innovation, if that makes sense. If you practice your scales for years you would be probably thinking about them in completely different ways compared to when you would first ‘discover’ them.
My current artistic outlet is painting trees and I definitely keep discovering new things, despite always painting trees.
I guess it’s a matter of how tight the definition of reptition is
