Like riding a bike..?

People talk about bike riding when they want to remind us that some things, once learned, are not forgotten. What they don’t mention is how we learned. No one learns to ride a bike from a book, or even a video. We learn it by doing it.

Actually by not doing it. We learn by doing it wrong, by falling off, by getting back on, by doing it again.

P.S. this approach works for lots of things, not just bikes. Most things in fact!

What is the only thing that really matters?

• It doesn’t matter what you would do.
• It’ doesn’t matter what you might do.
• It doesn’t matter what you meant to do.
• It doesn’t matter what you want to do.

As Theodore Roosevelt reminded us…

…“IThe credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly…”