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Basic Training
BE THE ARTIST YOU WANT TO BE.
•You might not even think you’re an artist at all in the beginning.
•But that doesn’t matter for this approach is based on all human learning.
Your artistic ability must grow from a very small beginning.
•There is NO other way.
•That’s how everyone learns everything!
The Learn Art Collection programs when combined are a course.
•In the Boot Camp experiment you just did whatever you could think of.
Your focus is now on learning how to be the artist you want to be.
•Just follow the plan outlined in this module of the Learn Art Basic Training.
When you learn to drive, everything has to be explained.
•You think through the process of driving in words.
•I’d better brake here, turn the indicator, now, and so on.
Eventually your skill levels improve and you become a better driver.
•What also happens is you don’t need to talk your way through each step of driving.
•You just do it.
The better you get, the less you think (well consciously anyway).
•AND the faster you can respond to whatever the circumstances that arise.
•Just imagine you have to actually talk your way through an intersection?
•You’d have an accident for sure – just about every time!
Talking is an inefficient method for guiding actions.
•Never-the-less, you don’t drive without any thought at all, or you’d still have accidents.
•When people have become skilled drivers they have internalized their thinking.
•What happens is their thinking has become non-verbal.
•This is faster and more efficient than language thinking.
Lesser golfers pay the professionals to teach them.
•They learn how to hit the ball, stand properly beforehand, etc.
•It’s the same in our field isn’t it?
But the professional golfer’s actions are almost automatic.
•They may not even be aware of exactly what they do.
•They just do it!
•And they focus on other aspects which vary, like pin placement, slope of the green etc.
On the other hand the amateur has too much to think about.
•That means they do not have time for those other parts of the game at all.
In many sports where things happen very quickly, we can see the evidence.
•For example a leading soccer player angles the ball past the keeper into the top of the net.
•This kind of action is not accidental, nor unintended.
•Yet the player just couldn’t think it through in words in time to perform the action.
•When you drive the car it’s exactly the same and in golf it’s the same too.
Learning and applying ANY skill is like this.
•A child learning to walk just does it, without concern for what might happen.
•The child is unaware of the consequences of failure and thus unworried.
•The pro golfer is also unworried and thus confident.
The archer hits the target, partly by pulling and partly by letting go.
•The professional has learnt the art of letting go.
•It comes with experience, skill and confidence.
What would happen if golfers were first taught the mental aspects (pin placement etc)?
•That’s instead of the traditional skills?
•Would they learn those skills anyway?
•Would they just do it!
•Would they become better golfers?
What about you and your art?
•Do you have to think everything out, step by step, before you can paint anything?
•This is the amateur golfer way.
Boot Camp has the solution to most artists’ biggest problem.
•It is the foundation for becoming the kind of artist you want to be.
Basic Training takes that introduction to Learn Art Collection and shows you how.
•You can become the artist you want to be?
•Create your own artwork and improve until you are the artist you want to be.
This learning system was first developed in the early 1990’s.
•Which itself was based on a program developed in the 1970’s.
•The Kindle program is an updated version of the original material.
BUT to get ANY benefit you must actually DO something!
•It’s
•You might not even think you’re an artist at all in the beginning.
•But that doesn’t matter for this approach is based on all human learning.
Your artistic ability must grow from a very small beginning.
•There is NO other way.
•That’s how everyone learns everything!
The Learn Art Collection programs when combined are a course.
•In the Boot Camp experiment you just did whatever you could think of.
Your focus is now on learning how to be the artist you want to be.
•Just follow the plan outlined in this module of the Learn Art Basic Training.
When you learn to drive, everything has to be explained.
•You think through the process of driving in words.
•I’d better brake here, turn the indicator, now, and so on.
Eventually your skill levels improve and you become a better driver.
•What also happens is you don’t need to talk your way through each step of driving.
•You just do it.
The better you get, the less you think (well consciously anyway).
•AND the faster you can respond to whatever the circumstances that arise.
•Just imagine you have to actually talk your way through an intersection?
•You’d have an accident for sure – just about every time!
Talking is an inefficient method for guiding actions.
•Never-the-less, you don’t drive without any thought at all, or you’d still have accidents.
•When people have become skilled drivers they have internalized their thinking.
•What happens is their thinking has become non-verbal.
•This is faster and more efficient than language thinking.
Lesser golfers pay the professionals to teach them.
•They learn how to hit the ball, stand properly beforehand, etc.
•It’s the same in our field isn’t it?
But the professional golfer’s actions are almost automatic.
•They may not even be aware of exactly what they do.
•They just do it!
•And they focus on other aspects which vary, like pin placement, slope of the green etc.
On the other hand the amateur has too much to think about.
•That means they do not have time for those other parts of the game at all.
In many sports where things happen very quickly, we can see the evidence.
•For example a leading soccer player angles the ball past the keeper into the top of the net.
•This kind of action is not accidental, nor unintended.
•Yet the player just couldn’t think it through in words in time to perform the action.
•When you drive the car it’s exactly the same and in golf it’s the same too.
Learning and applying ANY skill is like this.
•A child learning to walk just does it, without concern for what might happen.
•The child is unaware of the consequences of failure and thus unworried.
•The pro golfer is also unworried and thus confident.
The archer hits the target, partly by pulling and partly by letting go.
•The professional has learnt the art of letting go.
•It comes with experience, skill and confidence.
What would happen if golfers were first taught the mental aspects (pin placement etc)?
•That’s instead of the traditional skills?
•Would they learn those skills anyway?
•Would they just do it!
•Would they become better golfers?
What about you and your art?
•Do you have to think everything out, step by step, before you can paint anything?
•This is the amateur golfer way.
Boot Camp has the solution to most artists’ biggest problem.
•It is the foundation for becoming the kind of artist you want to be.
Basic Training takes that introduction to Learn Art Collection and shows you how.
•You can become the artist you want to be?
•Create your own artwork and improve until you are the artist you want to be.
This learning system was first developed in the early 1990’s.
•Which itself was based on a program developed in the 1970’s.
•The Kindle program is an updated version of the original material.
BUT to get ANY benefit you must actually DO something!
•It’s
20 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 12, 2012
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