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Question regarding detail during the box challenge

8:48 PM, Monday March 10th 2025

So I'm coming up to about 150 boxes and I'm wondering just how much detail and analysis one should put into each individual box? One of the points of the challenge, as i understand, is to be thoughtful and purposeful, yet I feel like I often end up overanalysing, doing multiple takes while plotting lines, trying to analyse minute differences in angle and sometimes just staring at a line trying to make sense of it.

Is this something that one is expected to do or is it should I just "Eyeball it" more and go with what feels correct?

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6:24 PM, Tuesday March 11th 2025

Being hyper-intentional with every choice you make in this course is the expectation. By doing that, students push those kinds of calculations and considerations into their subconscious behaviours, improving and honing their instincts so that outside of the course they can "eyeball" things with much more confidence and better overall results. But, if throughout the coursework we eyeball things and attempt to rely on our instincts, we effectively try to use our instincts to train themselves which generally results in a mess and far less overall development.

9:42 PM, Wednesday March 12th 2025
edited at 9:56 PM, Mar 12th 2025

Right, but isn't there a point in the process where one has to stop checking and assume the plotted line is correct? There is no calculation that gives a 100% correct assement, so it feels like there is always some guesswork involved. Even plotting towards a vanishing point becomes less reliable on more shallow boxes, at least in my experience.

edited at 9:56 PM, Mar 12th 2025
10:46 PM, Wednesday March 12th 2025

but isn't there a point in the process where one has to stop checking and assume the plotted line is correct

Yes, and threshold is the line between this course, and whatever else you draw for your own purposes. Everything we do in this course is hyper-intentional, so that what you draw outside of it doesn't have to be.

There will certainly be diminishing returns, but placing that threshold within the exercises you do - the things you do in order to continue growing, even if only by small measures - is how we plateau in our growth and cease to improve.

1:34 PM, Thursday March 13th 2025

But just rechecking doesn't always give a clear answer. Yes, the dots and lines contain all the information, but I can't parse it.

There have been many times where I've had to choose between multiple options with very little knowledge of the actual difference between them. What could I do in these situations, besides just going with what "feels right"?

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