I recently started learning hand tool woodworking and won’t shut up about it haha. I found a few books and channels that are helpful and feel real. The more I do it, the more it’s apparent to me that many things around me are just distractions. It’s really nice to unplug from everything and make some things or practice using/sharpening my tools. Those little moments when something clicks feel weirdly fulfilling.
What do you all enjoy doing? Have you found any new passions? What do you like about it?
“Mistakes teach you more than success” was something I heard and put almost no stock in for quite some time, but I really do believe it’s true. When something fails you can observe the results or catch the problem in real time and determine what’s gone wrong and make adjustments; when something succeeds without failures or breakdowns it’s difficult to know if it’s what you did that caused success, or if it was other factors outside of your control or measures. It can take a while to learn how to be open and accepting of those opportunities.
There was a teacher who said “it’s only a failure if you haven’t learned from it” and I might not have taken it to heart if she hadn’t also told me “it’s better to be a smartass than a dumbass”. These days I’m very glad to have figured out how to handle what I haven’t figured out yet.