How about music: 1. Rhythm -- Everything is 12/8. 2. Harmony -- There's only 3 chords. 3. Melody -- There's just 2 pentatonics. 4. Lyrics -- Only sometimes. And a lot of that is incredibly subjective and depends on the culture.
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It's more that you have limited time and you get paid to perform and what people pay for is cliches that are known to work. So, we all focus in a genre and master the application of the concepts to cliches that work, and branching out requires re-learning all new cliches.
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The significance of this idea is this: If these things all require extensive practice to become viable skills, then telling someone they just need to learn the concepts is denying the fact that a vast majority of what makes you a "programmer", "painter", or "musician" is cliches
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And, not just cliches but being able to apply the concepts to replicate cliches. I mean, programmers are fucking notorious as hell for denying people jobs simply for not putting a space before the ( on a fucking if-statement so don't tell me they're ruled by cliches.
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Additionally, I think a lot of the people who claim you only need to learn the concepts couldn't actually list out these concepts. I think most programmers couldn't replicate P" or a Lisp from memory, even though they're simple. I've never heard a designer even say "value".
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Finally, this questions the wisdom that you CANNOT learn the concepts from simply practicing. If you are judged by your skill in performing cliches, and the concepts are fairly simple, but only understood through experience, then...why can't you learn them while you practice?
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