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Originally Posted by AirKuhl
This time I am paying someone to come and do it for me. I know how to do it. I've done it before. But I'm not doing it again.
I also know how to do all that and have done it before. Never again.
The hours I spend working is not "doing" as per this thread, but it pays a hell of a lot better. When I stop doing what I do, I want to relax. So I pay others to "do" things. Why is that bad?
Sometimes I spend my free time watching TV, or rebuilding the interior of my car, or building a shed or drinking beer and playing guitar. They are all equally fine because I do them for fun. They are all "doing" as far as I'm concerned.
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At the risk of sounding like Frank Sinatra, the key is you
know how to do (be do be do)...most kids today never get to the first do.
Music. My wife is a very good musician, piano and organ. We also forced the kids to play an instrument. My son is very good, but began to feel that playing in the concert band wasn't up to his standard of cool (varsity sports letter as a freshman, etc.).
My advice to him was that if he planned on driving, he may want to explore keeping his first chair in the concert band.
It now seems that the school he wants to attend values the arts as much as they value his legs.
I really believe hard work is learned either from necessity, by direction or from desire for more.