Bitcoin has reinforced my natural tendency to not trust or believe anyone as a baseline starting point - I remember once being criticised as a 9 year old by a friend's mother, and that incident only struck me today. "Why do you always respond with disbelief when you're told something? It's not very good to be like that you know?" - Fucken hell, woman. Anyway, I have applied this mentality to varying degrees throughout my life, not by choice, but just being myself. Initially not strongly enough in my career, but always quite strongly applied in the area of music and #piano. There was so much contradiction, so much that sounded like nonsense, and wishy washy explanations - IMO, the gifted do what they do without knowing how, and they are not particularly gifted necessarily at explaining biomechanics. Then there are others who observe the gifted meticulously, and come to conclusions, but fail to understand or accept that there is a massive invisible component, and so imitation won't cut it. Then there are others who develop a system of teaching and sell courses and trademark the systems - while getting results for some, it's not universal, as they are merely imitating and only approximating the gifted. Excellent results come from years of practice with these methods, despite a gifted 6 year old who takes only 6 months. Something is missing. This was what I came to believe a couple of years into my youthful quest to play like the gifted - I was prepared to work for it. It was about 30 years ago, when I switched from playing organ (for 6 years) to piano, and began my journey of piano-technique discovery. Fully untrusting, I set to work, learning music, but also meticulously documenting in a journal my technical discoveries, descriptions, and tests/experiments. Looking back, the things my teacher told me actively were the opposite of what I needed to do to "find" good form. I read a lot on what many had to say, but I always tested, and generally assumed it was wrong. Mostly, what I read opened my eyes to contradictions, and some recommendations prompted me to think of new things. I think I've explored nearly every turn in the maze - so much has been discarded though. Now, I think I've got it. I don't think anyone else knows what I know, as there wouldn't be more than a handful of people who are so untrusting as I, nor determined nor interested to do what I did. Problem is, I have this knowledge now, and no one to teach. I don't particularly want the life of a piano teacher.