Doing It On My Own
Tagged as: Nov 12Nobody is born with the ability to do everything. Somehow we have to learn things. Even when we are talented at something, we still need to actually learn it before our talent can manifest itself.
When I was learning how to drive a manual transmission, I got to go out with other people as I learned the basics of how it worked. But trying things out every couple of weeks could only get me so far. It was only when I got my own vehicle and had the chance to go out by myself that I started to work things out. Sure I failed. Sometimes miserably so. I can still remember some of those violent stalls where it felt as if the automobile body was going to separate from the wheels. But eventually it came together.
I’ve learned that while it’s easy to dictate (or be dictated to), it’s much better to give people the opportunity to shine. In other words, teaching a man to fish means sometimes the man doesn’t catch a thing. But he will.
Or…he’ll starve. In which case, I don’t know because the illustration doesn’t really cover that scenario.
if he doesnt catch a thing to the point where he i starving, you will need to teach him again.
Yeah, that guy might need one extra lesson. Or to change bait. Or something.
The car I learned to drive on was manual, but it only had first gear sometimes. Other times, a novice driver would go ahead with third, seeing as first was missing but third was still up there at the top where first should have been. And the state I lived in at the time required starting and stopping on a hill as part of the driving test. FUN!
I do support that doing it on our own is difficult sometimes but it is the best way to opt.For the first time it may…for the next it can go..