Many years ago I started another blog, because hey, it'd be neat, why not? The premise there was that becoming more eco-friendly was well, a process. That there were many shades of being green. The trick was hopefully to make informed decisions, and work toward being better. That it wasn't all or nothing.
That pretty much ended up being a writing exercise that in the end, helped me prep for my G-MAT, and stopped after I entered into grad school, and broke my hand during some household maintenance. I ended up not having the time between working full time, going to school part time, and typing one handed. Go figure? right?
Recently I'd been thinking about it again. Not just in terms of being better about being green. The realization that many things are a process. I've had several experiences over the past few years that exemplify you aren't going to get good at something without allowing yourself to be bad at it for a time. These have crossed more than one area - in my career, in hobbies, volunteering, and in everyday life.
I started trying to embrace it more a little over a year ago. I needed to adapt something for work, and I kept seeing a snippet come up. That story about the college pottery class where they broke the class into 2 groups. Group A was to be graded on the perfect pot, Group B on how many they could make. At the end of the class students in Group A had made very few pots and they weren't much to look at, but they had spent hours agonizing over how to make the perfect pot. Group B's most recent pots were amazing looking, because they got their hands in and just started making pots.
Most of my life I've been in Group A. Not quite a perfectionist, but not comfortable with not being good at something either.
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