#212 - Can't I Live While I'm Young

Live While You're Young

What if you never hated learning? What if you only hated being told what, when, and how to learn?

It's Labor Day weekend, everyone is heading back to school, and I've been thinking about the difference between school and learning.

I was never meant for school. Both of my parents were teachers. My dad taught teaching at Middlebury College. I played by the rules and did the best I could—but I kept asking one question:

Why?

Why do I need to know this?

Where will I use it?

What problem does it solve?

Why does it matter?

Years later, I realized that kid asking "why" never hated learning. He fucking loved it.

For those of us in irrigation, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping, and the service trades, the field can become our university. The truck is the classroom. The job site is the laboratory. And when something doesn't work?

Figure it out.