Now, after seeing my learning style, the typical reaction was that I should stop doing that, because my dancing style will be ugly and "robotic", and my partners will feel uncomfotable.
Now, that's about the only possible way to learn to play anything non-trivial on instruments such as the guitar; therefore, these people
believe that all guitar music is ugly and robotic, or
have no idea of how people learn to play, or
are confused and/or talking through their asses (e.g. some part of them deep down is saying ‘people who cannot learn to dance the way I did don't deserve to get the social status I got from it’)
(not necessarily with probabilities within an order of magnitude of each other).
I completely agree with you (which is why I persisted in my learning style). From my experience it seems to me many people are confused like this.
Possible explanation: We learn some things by copying or early in childhood, and we learn some other things explicitly. I guess this makes many people think that skills are divided to "explicitly teachable" and "explicitly unteachable", using some heuristics, such as: "if it is usually learned at school, it is teachable", "if I tried to learn it and failed, it is unteachable&quo...
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