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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9817743" data-attributes="member: 22779">I mean, pithy aphorisms aside, this is just wrong.  The idea that you can be the top of something by only doing that one thing and not learning how to do any related activity is just not true. I'm the best guitarist I can be because I do nothing but play Van Halen.  Heck,  do nothing but play rock and roll and you're still not even cracking the top 100 best guitarists you could be.I'm the best writer I could be because I do nothing but write iambic pentameter.  Or Haiku. Good grief.  One of my students is one of the top ranked calligraphers in the country.  She travels all over teaching Japanese calligraphy.  She's won a shed load of awards. And she STILL constantly learns new styles and techniques.  78 years old and she's on an airplane every month to go somewhere and learn new techniques. The idea that you can be the best or even really good at anything by only studying that thing and there is no value and nothing to be learned by studying related things is just wrong.  Every single pedagogical study in the past century says that this is wrong.  There is nothing that supports this idea.  It runs contrary to every single training method for pretty much anything you care to look at.  I'm absolutely astonished to see the strident defense of this.  It's mind boggling.Heh.  My Similar Threads at the bottom of the page returned this [USER=7023840]@Snarf Zagyg[/USER] thread:[EMBED content="thread-707865"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-best-advice-for-new-dms-i-can-give.707865/[/EMBED]This pretty much nails it.</blockquote>

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