An artist friend on “Experts”:

coreyartus@mindly.social

I find one of the biggest challenges regarding "Experts" is the desire for them to be right. There's lot of self-validation wrapped up in following the advice of "Experts", and when they're wrong it feels like it reflects directly upon the follower of their advice because they didn't exercise good judgement when choosing who to follow in the first place.

It’s not a good feeling when you place trust in the advice of "Experts" who turn out to be not trustworthy. And it's incredibly hard to then not in turn twist and distort that as a reflection upon your own self. When the "Experts" we trust let us down, we feel naive and stupid for trusting them at all.

And that's so hard to short circuit. We have to constantly keep reminding ourselves that trust and hope and investment in plans are never bad things. We have to remember, as Rafi has expressed, that our unique square peg roles as artists don't fit into round holes. And we can't take responsibility when the hole looks like one shape and turns out to be another. That is not our fault.

Personally, I've been let down by a lot of "Experts" in my life that I trusted and paid for their perspectives. Sometimes there has been some sort of kernel of wisdom I was still able to take away despite the disappointment. The ones that have been the most effective have been the ones that recognize there are actually no holes to fit into in the first place...

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JoshB

This is even more apparent within the YouTube coaching world as well. So many people providing their expert opinion on why and how you're not creating to your potential. Have watched so many of these videos that I had a period of time which I thought that what I was doing was absolute garbage. Putting the self doubt into what I was doing.

Thankfully I came to the realization in which the "experts" were just parroting the same bullet points that have been spouted over the years. Nothing new was being said and my experience isn't the cookie cutter results that everyone was proclaiming to be the true way of doing things. Failure is just experience and finding different ways to do something that works out for you. Nothing wrong with that at all.