20 January

Stunts growth in art too. When an artist becomes cool, people stop even noticing whether what they're doing is crap. "In other words, coolness is like a game you appear to have won (having skipped many messy stages of development), but will ultimately lose (emerging into adulthood without the coping skills you would have gained had you actually passed through those awkward stages of development). " https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/encountering-america/201407/what-s-wrong-being-cool