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This is when a mentor tries to teach the hero not by ''doing'' but by ''feeling''. This makes sense if the art that is taught here is something like [[Supernatural Martial Arts]]. Action-oriented disciplines to have, well, [[Harmony Versus Discipline|discipline]]. Paradoxically, letting your emotions run and feeling your instincts guide you are not one and the same... [[Comically Missing the Point|but we're not going to pretend that's logical]]. Maybe these mentors simply suspect that their students [[It Was with You All Along|are already driven by serenity rather than negative feelings]] but that their role is to guide that along.

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* It was a bit like this when Gohan taught Videl to fly in ''[[Dragonball Z]]''.

* Deconstructed in ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. It's the philosophy espoused by the looters, who claim to be motivated by love and compassion for others. They hold this to be more important than rational thought, and as a result of their ideals being adopted by much of society, the world's falling apart.

* Subverted in "[[All American Girl]]". The protagonists art teacher criticizes her for basically "free-styling" on a still life assignment by adding in a random pineapple. At first, she sees this as stifling her natural creativity, but the real message is that you have to learn how to draw what you SEE, first, instead of drawing things the way you assume them to be.

{{quote|''You fool, he isn't dead, and your heart knew it. Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you. The trouble with you is that you never really had any hope.''}}

* The novel ''[[Youth in Sexual Ecstasy]]'' gives this advice regarding sex (the actual act, not if you must have it or not).