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I know this is obvious, but I think it bears repeating: the higher up you go in some skill tree, the smaller the improvements become. Which leads to some interesting observations: 1) To a novice, an expert giving feedback to the merely good will seem like nitpicking.

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I wonder if you could generalize this to "feedback from an expert always seems overly specific or small (and perhaps unsatisfying) because your perceived value of that part is smaller than the expert's"?

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Maybe, but I feel like here we have to talk specifics a little. I'll have to wait and see if this holds true.

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Yeah - I don't think it always applies, but there is probably a real effect. Maybe there's a version something like: "When an expert gives you feedback that feels overly nitpicky or specific, it's a sign of ______"

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This could be confused with advice from non-experts who might nit pick on the one or two superficial things they know about without having an idea of the bigger picture.

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Indeed.... hmm

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I think this is ok in practice — the novice-intermediate skill curve is shaped by large jumps; the smaller nitpicky tweaks only occur in the intermediate-journeyman-expert part of the curve. Hence the observation: a novice observing an expert giving feedback to the merely good.

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