Here at the Self Reliance Workshop, I post plenty of "How To" posts-- I have many more coming. Today, I spent time learning how to do something. What I learned today isn't as important as what went through my mind as I learned it. Specifically, it got me thinking about what it took to learn it. Here is some of what I came up with:

• Mustering patience
• Researching the process
• Planning the steps
• Thinking and rethinking
• Applying prior or related knowledge
• Using logic and common sense
• Practicing trial and error
• Acquiring and using the right tools
• Having the determination to get "it" right
• Mustering more patience
• Paying attention to the "Ah-Ha!" moment
• Mentally recording the way to do it

If you stop to think about the last "How To" project you tackled, this stuff should sound very familiar . . .

One aspect of learning how to is the first time will almost always take a long time. The next time will usually be a fraction of the original task. I firmly believe that practice makes better and ultimately it makes the complicated simply routine.

Continue to think, learn, and grow . . .

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DDFD believes that self reliance and self sufficiency are the roads to individual freedom.  He is dedicated to living a quality life through frugality, personal growth and productivity, and defensive entrepreneurship.  He also enjoys cooking from scratch and fishing.