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Do More Than You Read.....
We're very fortunate to live in an era where information on virtually any topic is available to us online via forums, videos, social media, etc. I feel this can be a blessing, or a curse depending on the the source of the info. It's easy to become overloaded with so much information, from so many different sources, that one may become hesitant to step away from the keyboard and fire up the forge.
I heard Jason Knight say something the other day that makes a lot of sense to me. I paused the video several times to scribble down what he said.
“Don’t read more than you do…...DO MORE! Do more, and understand what you’re reading. And what I mean by that is there’s a lot of, let’s just call it nerd talk. There is a difference between nerd talk and geek talk. Nerd talk is when you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, you’re just talking because you read it. Geek talk is…you did it, you’ve used it, and now you know what you’re talking about.”
What I take from this nugget of wisdom that he dropped is to choose your mentors wisely, and DO NOT BE AFRAID to try things. Make contributions to your scrap pile. Enjoy the process.
Happy Monday!
Very good information Matt! I'm currently in an ongoing email conversation with a young man who is planning/preparing for his JS test. I have been trying to get the same point across to him.
I've actually asked him how many attempts he has made at producing a JS performance test blade, and he seems to think that if he studies the variables enough, he only has to make two..... one to test in his shop, and another to take the actual test with. WHAT??????
I've been trying to get the point across that there are MANY variables that he can only "work out" by actually building test blades/knives. I've run into this more and more. Maybe that the reason that I always cringe when a student tells me... "I saw XXXXXX in a YouTube video, and they said it's the best way to do XXXX."
Yikes! From what I'm learning via performance testing in my shop, I'd never roll the dice like that.
Each to their own I suppose, but why not remove luck from the list of variables?
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