Someone taught someone who taught you to fold that crane. Every skill is a chain of patient people.
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Nothing you know came from nowhere. The way you fold a crane, tie a knot, shoot a free throw or close out a till goes back through a line of people who were patient with somebody less skilled, and most of those links never met each other. You are standing at the end of a long chain of other people’s patience.
Find out who taught the person who taught you something you can do, if they are still around to ask. Then be the next link: show one person one skill this week, slowly, without taking the thing out of their hands. Teaching it badly is still teaching it.
Who taught you a skill they were taught by someone else?
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