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Posted by Greg Coffin [4.225.208.144] on Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 10:27:24 :
In Reply to: I must say you have guts. posted by Clint Dixon [65.125.107.130] on Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 07:18:42 :
I hear what you're saying Clint. I guess my question is how did those experts get to be experts? Were they born that way, or did they learn by doing? I'm not interested in being an "expert" at anything, but I do want to be good at what I do, and I want to know how to do many things in case I find myself in a situation where I HAVE to do something.
The 6x6 project is more about teaching my boys how to work on trucks and machines than it is about having a fancy 6x6, so we're going to live a little dangerously by today's standards. We're actually going to do things to the truck (gasp!). Change tires, use jacks and jack stands, rebuild differentials (I've done at least 8 now, most of them for other people), handle materials that have been certified as potentially hazardous by some state or the other. You get the idea.
Life is about calculated risks, and there is a time and a place to stretch ourselves in our knowledge and skill base. I like doing things I've never done before, mostly because I am confident that I can succeed at what I'm doing. And the experience of failure is often the greatest teacher of all, because it shows you what didn't work, and often why. Other people subscribe to different philosophies of life, and I support them in that choice. But it's important for me to teach my children how to do things they and I are NOT good at, so that we can get better at what we do.
End of Rant.
Greg Coffin
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