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So, two posts back, I mentioned that I'm teaching myself to knit. And
classics_cat said to not get discouraged since EVERYONE's first attempts at knitting suck.
It's not to worry.
See, I've got a theory. In fact, this is one of those things that I WISH people would quote me about. I mean, I come up with all these cool Laws of Nature, and name them after myself, and nobody USES them:
Xiphias's Law Of Pizza: The best pizza in the world is the stuff made at the shop right around the corner from where you grew up.
Xiphias's Law of Epistemology: That which exists is possible. (This came about after a Usenet debate in which some people mentioned that their Finnish saunas got up to 230 degrees F (110 C) and that, while you couldn't stay in TOO long, it was REALLY refreshing. Other people claimed that it was entirely impossible for people to survive when the temperature was over the boiling point of water, because the people would boil. The first group of people replied that they did it regularly, but this failed to convince the second group of people. It was for this reason that I discovered that it had to be codified -- if people do it, then people CAN do it. This seems to be a fairly difficult concept to grasp on Usenet.)
And my THIRD law: Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.
'Cause, see, if you can do something well, it's not a challenge to do it. ANYONE can do something they can do well. But if it's worth doing, it's worth doing even if you can only do it poorly.
The rule "Anything worth doing is worth doing well" is a useful rule. For big projects. But it's not terribly useful on an individual level. On the individual level, it's more important to remember that it's the DOING that's important, not the WELL.
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It's not to worry.
See, I've got a theory. In fact, this is one of those things that I WISH people would quote me about. I mean, I come up with all these cool Laws of Nature, and name them after myself, and nobody USES them:
Xiphias's Law Of Pizza: The best pizza in the world is the stuff made at the shop right around the corner from where you grew up.
Xiphias's Law of Epistemology: That which exists is possible. (This came about after a Usenet debate in which some people mentioned that their Finnish saunas got up to 230 degrees F (110 C) and that, while you couldn't stay in TOO long, it was REALLY refreshing. Other people claimed that it was entirely impossible for people to survive when the temperature was over the boiling point of water, because the people would boil. The first group of people replied that they did it regularly, but this failed to convince the second group of people. It was for this reason that I discovered that it had to be codified -- if people do it, then people CAN do it. This seems to be a fairly difficult concept to grasp on Usenet.)
And my THIRD law: Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.
'Cause, see, if you can do something well, it's not a challenge to do it. ANYONE can do something they can do well. But if it's worth doing, it's worth doing even if you can only do it poorly.
The rule "Anything worth doing is worth doing well" is a useful rule. For big projects. But it's not terribly useful on an individual level. On the individual level, it's more important to remember that it's the DOING that's important, not the WELL.