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   notDusty | Jan 31, 2005 01:56am | #1

    Dave ,

                  Yeah , mee too . But what would we have learned from that ?

                                dusty

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   UncleDunc | Jan 31, 2005 03:48am | #2

   >> Just once I'd like to finish something not having learned anything

   That's easy. Only do stuff you've done before.

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   Sprucegum | Jan 31, 2005 07:57am | #4

   I have tried doing stuff I did before only to learn I forgot how I did it. 

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   mvac | Feb 01, 2005 07:51pm | #10

   "Just once I'd like to finish something not having learned anything

   That's easy. Only do stuff you've done before."

   Hah! You assume I can't make the same mistake twice! (Or more for that matter...)

   :-)Mitch

   "I'm always humbled by how much I DON'T know..."

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   Patto | Feb 02, 2005 05:13am | #13

   This why I have never made a set of chairs - the prospect of the same mistake 8 times.

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   dondownunder | Jan 31, 2005 04:36am | #3

   Wouldn't we all :-) Somedays it feels like Murphy is sitting on my shoulder....

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   BArnold | Jan 31, 2005 09:37am | #5

   I want to keep learning every time I do anything.  The day we stop learning is the day we die!

   :-)

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   macalex | Jan 31, 2005 11:52am | #6

   Ignore this if you're a 'box' maker, but for us studio and recreational woodies, learning from our mistakes (read 'solving problems as we come to them') is 8 tenths of the joy!

   MalcolmNew Zealand | New Thinking

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   Dave45 | Jan 31, 2005 05:59pm | #7

   Only 80%? - lol

   Two things that will get me revved up are:

   Doing something I've never done before.

   Working out the process(es) to effeciently do (or make) something.

   Once I've done either (or both), I lose interest. - lol

   Early in my engineering career, I (and my managers) realized that I was at my best doing one-of-a-kind jobs or setting up the organization to do an on-going project.  I was a disaster trying to manage an in-place project since I was completely incapable of just letting it run.......I was always "tweaking" the system - usually causing complete chaos. - lol

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   macalex | Feb 01, 2005 10:59am | #8

   > I was at my best doing one-of-a-kind jobs or setting up the organization to do an on-going project <

   Me too Dave. I used to feel guilty about it. Not being a 'good administrator' when your business is public administration could be seen as a weakness!

   Now, I just own up.

   MalcolmNew Zealand | New Thinking

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   Dave45 | Feb 01, 2005 05:58pm | #9

   I never worked in public administration but I also "felt guilty" about not being a good administrator - but I didn't think it really mattered.

   I was in nuclear engineering during the "boom" days of the '70's.  That was an incredible time when dozens of new plants were either being built - or were in the planning stage.  Business was growing and we all "knew" it would last forever.   I was something of a "boy wonder" and was on the fast track to the executive suite when I lost out on a big promotion.  When my boss gave me the news, he told me it was because the other guy was better at the 'day-to-day' stuff and that was what they really needed.

   Within a month, I resigned and took my bruised, self pitying, overstuffed ego to a competitor in the same job I had lost.......and failed miserably.  (The "Peter Principal" isn't just a theory. - lol)

   I left there and bought some new jeans, brushed off my boots, hung the three piece suits in the closet and have been very happy ever since.  Like Clint Eastwood said, "A man has to know his limitations".

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   tms | Feb 01, 2005 10:25pm | #11

   Dave, You're the kind of guy I like to sit down and have a beer with, but hate to have in my lab (or shop). You're too much like me. We would each spend our time "fixing" the adjustments just made by the other guy.Tom

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   Dave45 | Feb 02, 2005 12:08am | #12

   Why would there be a problem.  All you have to do is accept my genius, insight, and obvious superiority. - lmao

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   Patto | Feb 02, 2005 05:14am | #14

   Have you heard the song "Oh it's hard to be humble, when your perfect in every way"? I have just trained my children to refer to me as 'The magnificent' - not looking forward to the fall though.