I don’t know how to do this
What a beautiful place to be, not knowing how to do something.
An adventure of discovery awaits. In the solving for, we stumble, make mistakes, recalibrate.
In this age of search, the solutions to most things are one or two clicks away.
Someone is there to teach you how to do the practical things for the cost of being online. Our job is to discern the better teacher.
Sometimes, it helps to have a teacher coach in real time, someone who will address the nuances and particularities of your unique problem.
I am alarmed by so many millennials and younger who – despite having the ‘here is how you do it” one click away, have trouble doing things that were commonplace in my youth, like fixing a puncture on a car or bike tyre.
In their inability to do incredibly practical things, they become dependent on others.
Having spent most of my adult life as a single mum, I was the fix-it person. I didn’t have the budget to call the tradie in. In those earlier days, I also didn’t have the resources on YouTube to figure it out.
Being practical, like most things, is a learned skill. Figuring out how something works so you can fix it when it breaks is an incredibly useful skill to cultivate.
The practice gets us to look systemically. How does the whole thing work?
I don’t know how to surf well. I am figuring it out. The journey, while mostly joyous, can be frustrating. Like all learning. At the level of detail, it is the board, the waves and timing. At the larger level, it is reading waves, tides, wind, currents and oceans. Practice plus time. Big, big time. Definitely getting help from online videos and my partner coach.
The domain of learning is not so important. That we are constantly learning is what keeps us sharp and alive.
Photo Taken October 26th 2024, Article written October 26th 2024