Hum...? Something to that. So, how do you teach someone that here on the list? That is your argument, that your 25 years gives you somehow, magically, I guess, the ability to tell folks how to do things better than someone who does not have all that experience.
You know what, Bill? I am a lousy teacher except for one thing. I am good at teaching people how to drive a stick shift car. Why am I good at that? Because, I was not good at learning it. It was very difficult for me, and so I do not expect people to get it right away. In other areas I am very impatient when they don't get it, but in anything that requires physical coordination I am patient because it is difficult for me. So I do not teach stick shift well because I have driven a straight stick for 50 years, I teach it well because it was hard for me to learn. I could teach it well when I was 17 and only had been doing it for 6 months. A lot of experience means one can do something without thinking about it, that is the last thing that someone who is trying to learn something wants to hear. (My dad could not teach me how to drive a stick, he did it without thinking, and yelled at me when I didn't do it right, but could not tell me how to do it right.) Someone who learned it last week can probably help him more. -graywolf William Robb wrote: > Experience isn't what you know, it is how you do things. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
