Experience Counts

Hank, a landscape contractor, had landed his first, full-fledged job. Of course he didn't want to appear to be the rank amateur he knew he was, so he pretended a casual kind of nonchalance and expertise.

One of the first tasks he had to tackle was blasting out a farmer's tree stumps with dynamite. Since the farmer was watching, Hank went to some length to measure out the fuse and set the dynamite. So far so good, and he continued to go about the task as if he really knew what he was doing. There was one problem. He didn't know how much dynamite would be just right to do the job. It was pure and simple an estimate, a guesstimate.

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When Hank was all set up, he breathed a prayer that he had enough dynamite packed under the stump and yet not so much it would blow it to kingdom come. The moment of truth came.

Hank glanced at the farmer with a knowing look of what he hoped came across as confidence and pushed down the plunger, The stump rose high in the air with a resounding sound boom and arched magnificently over toward his pickup truck and landed right on the roof of the cab, demolishing it.

The farmer turned to Hank and said, " Son, you didn't miss it by much- just a couple of feet. With a bit more practice you'll be able to land those suckers in the truck bed every time!"

Well, so much more for experience and the old theme that practice makes perfect. There are lots of things in life for which we don't have the time to practice, and there are some moments when it is best just to act.

^{Ref: Moments for Graduates by Robert Strand}

Best Regards,
Khai

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