Theorizing massive improvement.

[OtherMuzz]

Ok so this post is a bit about some things that i think I'm noticing.

It seems to me the way a lot of the people here striving for improvement might not be using the most effective way to get better. Not in the sense of they are doing anything wrong, but more on the critical thinking level, and the mental side of things.

I can only speak from my experiences of how i learn the most efficiently, but it seems that whenever i do a few things, and keep some ideas in my mind i get far far more improvement.

So these ideas are:

• There is nothing physically stopping you from making the best work you have ever done, it's only creative decisions and technical knoledge that get in the way.
  
• You already know enough things to make your image noticeably better without studies. It is far more efficient to use what you already know, than to learn new information.
  
• The brain is hardwired to see wrong anatomy, use that to direct what you should study when you don't know.
  
• An image isn't the best you can make unless you literally have no idea how to improve it.
  
  

So how can we use these ideas to get better?

Well some things i do mentally now and when i first started doing this, was listing everything that i can see that i could improve, no matter how small the issue was, i would usually fill up 2-3 a4 sheets with points.
Everything on that list you either know how to fix, or know you don't know how to fix. It gives you a very focused thing to study to make your image better.

Try it out maybe and let me know what you think.

Ps. A critique can be the hardest to take when you already know what it is telling you.