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Overheard a kid at the park tell his friend 'my dad says the best way to learn is to break stuff'
It made me realize I've been so scared of messing up my own projects that I never actually start them. Anyone else get stuck in that 'don't break it' mode?
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wendy3919d ago
Remember how we used to break toys just to see the insides. Now we treat our own ideas like they're museum pieces. I bought a nice sketchbook and was too scared to draw a bad line in it. Let it sit empty for a year. Finally just scribbled all over the first page to ruin it on purpose. That book's full now. Sometimes you have to wreck the perfect thing in your head to make the real thing.
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lucasjackson10d ago
My old man used to say you don't really know how a radio works until you've shocked yourself fixing one. I spent a whole summer taking apart a lawnmower engine just to see the pieces, never got it back together. Learned more from that pile of parts than any manual.
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jessica_robinson238d ago
Honestly, that advice makes me a little nervous. Breaking stuff can get expensive fast, and not everyone can afford to just ruin things to learn. I fixed my laptop by watching videos and being super careful, not by taking a hammer to it. Sometimes the goal is to actually keep the thing working, you know? There's a middle ground between being too scared to start and just breaking everything on purpose.
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