Experience...

I know this post is early, I am going on our second vacation as a family tomorrow so I won't be around - so enjoy!


"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." Aldous Huxley



This week's episode of "The Fattening of America" is titled, "Puttin' on the Foil", which is a reference to the movie "Slapshot" starring Paul Newman. The focus of the episode was a call-to-arms, calling us to "put on the foil" daily in order to be ready for the battle.

Gaining experience is one way to prepare for battle. Sure we all make mistakes in our lives, trial and error are ways to gain experience so that we can take that knowledge and integrate it into our databases for similar situations that may come up.

Someone once asked Thomas Edison how he felt about failing 10,000 times before finding a working solution to the lightbulb. Thomas replied that he did not fail 10,000 times but rather found that inventing his lightbulb took 10,000 steps.

My "diet" isn't a "diet" per se, it is rather a lifelong journey. And I will continue to battle on a daily basis, hence I too will have to remember to "put on the foil"...


"Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones." - Author Unknown




Matty
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