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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Seriously, just try it.\u00a0 It’s the only way that you will learn.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some of us are genetically pre-disposed to try it, even when we know we shouldn’t.\u00a0 For example, the little pond north of the house is “dry”.\u00a0 This evening, I decide to drive the gator across this dry pond.\u00a0 It worked well for just about 2 chain lengths.\u00a0 I now know this because it took 2 chains hooked together to tie the gator to a pickup ball so that I could pull it out.\u00a0 It looked dry but only an inch or two below it was mud.\u00a0 Really sticky mud.\u00a0 Now I know.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In all honesty, most learning happens when a person can step back and say, “Damn!\u00a0 Don’t do that again.”<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Over the years, it has drove me nuts when people would say that they could never clip\/shear.\u00a0 You never will be able to if you don’t grab a set of clippers and just try it.\u00a0 Granted some are better than others but anybody can rough one out if they will just try it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Trimming hooves is another deal.\u00a0 Try it.\u00a0 Take some off.\u00a0 Feel the hoof pad.\u00a0 Take some more off.\u00a0 It doesn’t take long to learn when to stop.\u00a0 It is actually a whole lot like clipping fingernails.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And teaching is a whole bunch of just try it.\u00a0 The past 8 years has consisted of a whole bunch of “Kids, I haven’t ever done this before either but let’s try it.”\u00a0 Making wurst, building dump bed trailers and operating a greenhouse were all foreign to me till I\/we tried it.\u00a0 And in those instances, I tried it with an audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Let’s get in the way back machine to 1993.\u00a0 First year teaching and I had never given an FFA speech or taught somebody to write\/give a speech.\u00a0 I had also never written a proficiency app or national chapter app.\u00a0 I had to jump in and try it.\u00a0 Glad I did.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In 2003, when 3 girls talked me into buying goats, I didn’t know the care, feeding or management.\u00a0 I knew livestock but not goats. There were no veterinarians in OK to use for health problems, no “experts” to use for feeding & showing tips.\u00a0 Texas braced their goats–Okies had to show on the chain.\u00a0 I had to try it and I learned.\u00a0 And I am still learning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In the course of Try It, failure is a prerequisite.\u00a0 If you can’t step back and say “I can do better than that” then you really didn’t try.\u00a0 AI and ET work in goats is still just a try it, take notes and try not to replicate that disaster.\u00a0 It’s getting better but it won’t work if you don’t try.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It’s called life.\u00a0 \u00a0Get out there and try it.\u00a0 The worst thing that will happen is that you will learn what not to do.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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