Sonia

You couldn’t be more right about the value of learning by doing. I’ve been guilty of over analyzing and over preparing and learning too much before taking action and actually doing what I learned.

The truth is that without doing the learning just remains a theory which is useless unless it is tested.

It is amazing how good it feels to get something done that works. This feeling beats the vague feeling of satisfaction one gets when learning without putting it into practice right away.

What you wrote in this post also gave me a big relief as far as not having to plan everything with the end result in mind. I always felt that too much planning can be constricting because what we plan and the way we think will work the best is based on the limited view we have at a particular time. And in the meantime very little gets actually done.

Because nearly everyone emphasizes detailed, the end result in mind planning I felt almost guilty about not wanting to detail plan and felt that I should be forcing myself to plan that way.

Keep the good writing coming. I will most certainly come back to check it out.

Vance

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