Been thinking a lot about personal canons as a tool for learning.
I've always believed and observed that you can't actually /teach/ anybody something they don't already know. The learning has to come from them.
A personal canon allows people to learn how other people learned. It gives them a way to forge the same mental connections in their own mind or, even more exciting, to forge entirely different outputs based on the same inputs.
Personal canons also allow people to buy into a certain part of somebody's process. like maybe I don't want to do what somebody is doing but want to learn more about a certain aspect of their practice (like yoga for example). personal canons allow me to see where to start in /that/ specific space, which makes the canon a much more valuable artifact.