The Matter of Tutorial Watching Substitute
The subject has completed the tutorial curriculum and begun a second curriculum while the project awaits a first draft.
The tutorial was 4 hours and 22 minutes long.
She watched it at 1.5 speed while eating lunch, while on the bus, and once late at night when she couldn't sleep. She finished it in four days. She took notes. The notes were thorough.
She felt ready to begin.
She found another tutorial. This one was more specific. More focused on the exact type of project she intended to make. Fourteen videos. Seven hours total.
She watched six of them before she found a third course. The third course had a dedicated instructor with better production quality and a more methodical approach to the foundational concepts she had somewhat rushed through in the first tutorial.
The governing rule applies: if tutorial watching substitute improves the conditions for creativity, it may postpone creativity indefinitely. Each tutorial improved the conditions. The conditions improved consistently. The project remained in conditions.
She was, by any measure, better informed than when she started.
Her notes folder contained forty-three pages. Highlights, diagrams, references to timestamps. A bookmark collection with thirty-one items. A playlist in her learning app with eight courses marked "to watch."
She opened the project file on a Thursday.
The file was empty.
She watched the first tutorial's introduction again. There was a specific part early on, a framing device, that she had not fully absorbed the first time. Understanding it properly would help.
It was twenty-two minutes long.
She took new notes.