Additionally, I have learned, at great expense and having spent many hours falling into the water, that nothing will take the place of long-term experience. However, all the experience in the world will be meaningless if the individual accomplishes it without study and record maintenance. Pride and ego should never be a factor on how one learns or shares information. A poser is the most vile and evil mutant of the no-name disease. The poser syndrome is identified when one expresses himself or herself without source or basis, and becomes recognized as a false prophet among their fly-fishing peers.
Posers end up alone outside of their peers as one without credentials.
Additionally, their failure to admit that a technique was wrong for a situation or a mistake was even made can accelerate the terminal effect of the poser syndrome. This is as close to fly-fishing hell as anyone can achieve in mortal life. I recently, about six years ago, found the local university library was a hospital in hiding for the severely afflicted like myself. I have spent many weekend hours, not on the water, but at study. The works of Brooks, Marinaro, Fox, Koch and others that have been long forgotten taught me more than any other visual training aid cure to date.