[ceejay]

I think the "trick" (not really a trick) is to learn to "see things for what they are". As simple as that sounds, I'm always surprised at how difficult it seems to be for some people. And how I can easily get caught in that trap if I am not being disciplined enough with my own thoughts / learning.

Especially obvious when that lack of discipline helps shape the foundation of one's thoughts on a topic.

[pjc50]

Most art courses start with some kind of training in "seeing". What are the real proportions of something? Can we percieve a face as a collection of light and dark areas rather than letting our feature-decoding brain make its own impressions? If you look at the colour of something in isolation, how does it compare to its perception in a scene? And so on.