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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Dennis Leonhardi on February 13, 2022, 04:17:17 PM
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Something to ponder ...
“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of ‘getting to know you’ questions you ask young people: ‘Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject?’ And I told him, ‘No I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.’”
“And he went ‘WOW. That’s amazing!’ And I said, ‘’Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.’”
“And he said something then that I will never forget, and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: ‘I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.’”
“And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could Win at them.”
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (American writer, 1922-2007)
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Now you tell me. D>K
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That has always worked for me. When it can time to earn a living, my Dad always told us kids to 'learn to do something using your head and your hands at the same time and you will never starve." In my working career I managed to stay employed when others were out of work by knowing how to do a lot of things pretty good, instead of only only one thing really well. Same way with hobbies and side interests. Even with model airplanes there isn't too much that I haven't tried and accomplished with some success. It's like the old saying from back in my younger days, "If it feels good, DO IT!"
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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Check out CycleKarting. Talk about a bunch of passionate people who enjoy life. They remind me of those of us that love control line aerobatics for the pure enjoyment it brings.
https://www.cyclekartclub.com
https://vintage-kart-company.myshopify.com
https://www.buildyourownracecar.com/racecartype-cyclekart/
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Racing and hunting madden the mind, (Tao). Not bragging but speaking as someone who's won allot at different things. There's something beyond winning and losing that you strive for and that's just to do your best, let nature take it's course and be ok with whatever happens.
Motorman 8)
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“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men” - Colossians 3:23 impressed me at an early age.
Dennis