Learning and Doing

Me being what I consider sometimes profound comes and goes.  Often I think something and think “that’s good” only to totally forget it in a matter of minutes.  I reckon there is a couple of reasons for that. 
Often it is just human nature.  I forget stuff.  Sometimes I reckon it is the stroke.  My memory is not what it was.  But I don’t use that as an excuse (though come to think of it it is a pretty good one).  At other times it is (and I need to face it) my age.  Everyone who gets older has this sort of thing to look forward to.  As someone said yesterday the difference between older and younger is an older person can truly say I have been young but a younger person cannot yet say, I have been old.
Yet at other times things stick with me.  It is like it is something I regard as essential to my current situation, and becomes like a mantra I live by.
This morning I thought something I thought was worth holding to.  So I thought if I write about it, I am more likely to keep it.  It was “better is one thing learned and done than a hundred just learned.
I am all for learning.  We have institutions that impart knowledge and prepare us to us it.  Yet to me it is one thing to hear, and another to do.
I learned videoing which I had not done before.  It is quiet a simple operation, but it is not something that is known without instruction.  I actually thought the way I was taught was ideal.  Someone demonstrated to me what to do and then watched me do it.  They told me and again demonstrated steps I had omitted and left off when I had what I needed to do it myself.  There was further learning beyond the basics, down the track.
I am incredibly impressed with the tradies that come and do stuff.  Getting rid of our huge tree was scary to me.  But the tradies looked and said that is about a days work.  Several of them came and by soon after lunch the tree was gone.  I had wondered how do you get rid of such a big tree in such a small space?
Yet the people we hired had learned and done.  I was amazed how they cut and dropped huge branches.  It was something I wanted professionals to do.  Before I was around at a previous place, a neighbour hired someone to get rid of a tree and it fell on and destroyed their house.  The community rallied around for the repairs.
The whole point for me was the learning and doing.  Good advice is great, but doing good advice is better.