Good afternoon, my dear ones,
Today’s misconception is one of the most stupid which arose in the later 20th century, and continues on to this day…and it goes like this:
Misconception: It’s always better to do spellwork yourself rather than have someone else do it!
Reality: An expert is always is the best choice to perform the most skilled and effective work, and even experts have their expert peers spellcast for them from time to time, because just as heart surgeon or brain surgeon can’t easily operate on themselves, so are there times even the most expert spellcaster needs the help of another.
Anyone who tells you, assuming you’re a novice or have never cast a spell before, that you would do better than an expert in casting a spell is stupid or lying, and should not have your trust either way.
Oh, I’m sure I hurt the feelings of a few stupid people and liars. I don’t mind being the most unpopular girl in the room, though. I see that rotten piece of foul smelling garbage passed around, normally only in places where the stupid and dishonest pass around advice to those seeking knowledge from people without any, so rest assured, if you see advice presented, you are nowhere you will learn anything at all, and it’s best to move on.
Casting spells is a skill. When I was 13-14,and just learning magic, I couldn’t do the things I can do now more than thirty years later. This isn’t because I had no innate ability for the practice as I excelled quickly, but because I was a novice, so if I were to choose who to cast a spell for me at that age or this one, I would choose me today. I also had to take a wood shop class at that age, and have assembled a few pieces of furniture and so forth from diagrams since and if I had to choose my very young self vs me now, we both suck at that stuff but young me would have more patience than me now so I would actually choose anyone else, then young me, then me now since me at any age has not refined that skill. I took a first aid class and I’d still choose a medical doctor over myself to treat a wound of mine, even though it’s my wound…see because that’s what experts are for - dealing with those matters they are an expert in.
Truly, any thinking person doesn’t require me to tell them something of such simple reasoning: if you are not an expert at a thing, an expert will do better at that thing than you would.
And all experts even hire experts in their own field from time to time.
But most of all, anyone who passes on this piece of rubbish advice - that your novice work will exceed that of an expert - is a fool and should be avoided at all costs.
~Cat
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