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Originally Posted by Sam988  Congratulations, RichGrad, i'm really glad to hear it. Although, it's like when religious people achieve something, they thank their gods instead of thanking themselves and their own competence.
I think that what made you achieve this is not LoA but rather you and your own competence. But i'm obviously not going to convince you. Congrats, anyway!  |
Well I see it different.
It is not the LOA and is not just his own competence in general.
It is his specific competence to use the tool that the LOA is in a correct way that he got highly motivated to improve all other competences that needed to be improved to reach his goal.
And it doesn't matter what may help you to motivate you to such a high level that you can reach your goal....as long as it motivates you and you reach goals, that is what counts the most. If someone defines a theory or tool like LOA and it suits you to be that motivated that you reach your goal, it is not so weird to be thankful that someone gave that method or tool a name and for free to people to use it if it helps them.
Fact that people end up on the site of Steve and try different methods to improve themselves means that they can use some guidance. Of course you still have to work on it yourself, but without a useful tool it could have taken much longer.
If you want to make a table of wood, it is interesting to find out that someone already developed tools to do it in a nice quick and easy way.
So first you search what material you need, what tools you need and what methods are common known built a table.
If you like to design a different shape or model some more things should be thought about.
But no one is going just to buy some wood without any tools and trying to invent the tools or even make those tools themselves.
It would be rather stupid to start each time from zero.
So we may be thankful to those who store info on methods and tools and try to explain them in different way.
To bring them in practice depends again on your own abilities.
I prefer to saw certain things manual rather than with electrical equipment. Others will just choose the opposite. I like to use old techniques in mounting wooden parts above just using some glue and nails. The older techniques take longer to make things, but the connections remain longer and are stronger....as like nails and screws do rust, and glue loses its force under the influence of the environment. Other people will prefer to have things rather quick than for a long time.
But at the end it is the result that counts...did you reach to make a table that you had in mind with the tools and methods that you chose for. If not start again. And sometimes you have to improve being handy with tools before you can actually start to make a table. But nobody will say it is thanks to the hammer and nail that I was able to make quickly self a table...but actually it is thanks to the fact that someone already invented tools and material and methods that we can come quicker to a certain result. So really we may be thankful to ourselves but also to others that make it possible for us to grow faster or become more efficient. Of course you have to have certain skills already for certain goals or to use certain methods or tools.
But it is seldom only thanks to ourselves that we reach our goals. Without guidelines of other people experiences where we can build on ourselves....we would not make a lot of progress I think.