lina wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >Lina, I am dissappointed and hurt that my messages aren't of high > >enough quality to make the cut for your reading. What may I do to > >improve them? :-) > > Oh Bob, I am terribly wrong (haha ... I am kidding here. gotta be > serious. please don't be disappointed and really appreciate you > pointed it out.) > sometimes I just missed lots of things, and barely realized it. That's okay. Obviously I was mostly just having fun with that comment. There is always too much email. > friend's girlfriend, she told me that sometimes some person know how > to swim fast, but not necessarily know how to teach people. That is very true. Being good at doing something does not mean that you are good at teaching something. > she implied that I shouldn't have took advice from everyone. she was > an innocent bystander, in swimming pool she never said something > about how to swim. But I was shocked (even I didn't give any > comments about her smart insight at that time.) I disagree with your friend that you shouldn't listen to the advice of other people, even those that might not know what they are doing. Instead I think you should listen and make your own judgement about whether it is worthwhile or not. Some advice you should ignore. And it might even be this advice right now. Or maybe not. You will have to decide. But I think there is something to learn from everyone. Even if someone doesn't know how to teach then if you know how to learn then you can learn from them even if they cannot teach. It is more work and effort for the student but sometimes it is worthwhile. I am a pilot. I learned to fly in the modern age in an old vintage taildragger. One of my instructors is an awesomely good pilot. He is a stereotypical "grissled" old grey haired guy. I love to fly with him because he is just so good at what he does. But he is a terrible teacher! I have to pry the knowledge out of him. It is hard. If I just flew with him and had him sign off my logbook that he flew with me then I wouldn't have learned anything. But knowing I have to work for it means that I am taking it as my job to learn and so I ask him questions and take an active approach to learning from him. In doing this I have picked up some lessons that have been invaluable to me. I wouldn't have gotten those anywhere else. > What's happened on that learning is the same as what's going on with > this learning. I just feel I am not good, so wanna to improve by > following others and then sometimes even lost something true. Then you have taken the first step. Good job! The journey of 10,000 miles begins with a single step. If you are motivated and persistent then you will get there. But often a goal like this is always a moving target. With something like this you never reach an end. I know that I have not reached mine. But that is okay. Life is a journey, not a destination. It is the journey and how you travel it that is important. Good luck! Bob
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