Re: the story at the start about watching a movie with a director and seeing them look at the movie different than the author did: I heard a great workshop by C

Re: the story at the start about watching a movie with a director and seeing them look at the movie different than the author did: I heard a great workshop by Chris Thile, MacArthur genius grant recipient and mandolin player. He said "we argue about this in the band, but I feel like once you're a serious musician, you can't ever enjoy music like lying back in the spa pool and letting it wash over you. You're always going `how does this make me feel? what about it is making me feel that way? how is it constructed? what's similar to other music i've heard? what's different?'." We shouldn't be surprised that a creator's knowledge of a product exceeds that of the consumer. We should expect that we'll need to acquire that level of expertise and critical thought about a problem or solution space to be effective in the world.