Be Able to Do Things Well

In our world today, with fast cars, machines and computers, it is very important that people know how to do things well.

Whether it’s driving a car or running a business, if someone does not know what he is doing it is dangerous for everyone.

You should learn how to do things well and help others to do this too. You, your friends and your family will have a better chance to live safely and happily if you do.

Doing something well includes: being able to look, learn and practice.

Look.

You should trust what you see and not what someone tells you. Really look at things and decide for yourself what it is you see. Then you can do something to learn about it.

Learn.

In order to learn something you must first find out what there is to know about it. Not all of the information you learn will be true and you must decide what is true and what is false. Also, not all information will be important and you must decide what is important and what is not. This is true whether you are trying to learn to play the guitar or drive a car. There is a lot of true information you will need to study and know.

The best way to do this is to find good books or teachers on the subject you want to learn, learn the meanings of any words you do not understand, sort out any false information you may already have about the subject and learn the true and important information by deciding what is true for you.

By doing this you will find that you now really know things about that subject.

Practice.

The true test of how well you know something is how well you can do it. This takes practice. Take the guitar for example. You may know many things about playing the guitar, but you could only play well if you actually practiced playing it. The same is true with driving a car and every other skill or activity you can name. Only with lots of practice can you use what you learn.

It is one thing to read about how to drive a car; it is a different thing to actually drive. This requires practice, practice and more practice. This practice should be done in steps. Start with something very easy to do then try something a little bit harder and so on. You could start with opening the door, then sit behind the wheel, then do something else a little harder until finally, all the steps necessary to driving a car are practiced until they can be easily done. At this point, you would be able to drive the car well.

It can be dangerous when people around you don’t practice until they can do things well. You should tell people to look and learn and practice until they can do things well and you should do the same. There is a lot of happiness in being able to do things well. You will be even happier when you help others around you to do things well too.