In many creative acts/processes, learning “how” to do something is mostly discoverable. The act is the how. Playing a piano is the act of touching the keys. Drawing is the act of moving a mark-making tool on a surface that will accept its marks. Many people assume that learning how is a practice of mastery — that we don’t truly know how to do something until the output or the artifact of the act is deemed acceptable. We must play songs on a piano. We must represent a person or an object by drawing. Both of those cases may be…

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