Today at Coconut Horse we ran. There is your backblast.
More importantly, we had Q Source and the topic was Whetstone. Stroganoff, with his quiet leadership, or I, in my lack of foresight, or God, in his infinite wisdom (or possibly all 3) placed me in charge of Q Source this am at Coconut Horse. I don’t really know if I volunteered before realizing what the topic was, or because I knew what the topic was. Then I had to back out due to a 2.0 commitment. Then the commitment was cancelled and I jumped back in. I think I knew it was Whetstone, but I just didn’t think about it-kind of like suggesting EC the night before it is supposed to rain and be really cold (which I have done more times than I care to remember).
I knew this was going to be a struggle as my experience with Whetstone was not ideal. OK, that is an understatement. It was really bad. I made mistakes due to poor insight on my part (sorry PizzaMan). As the stone, I should have done things differently. I have had time to think about this and really felt Whetstone was just not right for me. I convinced myself that this was ok and that Whetstone was just not “necessary” for me. Today changed my mind. It did not really sink in until HIPAA asked me at the very end if I had thought about trying Whetstone again. Before today that answer would have been no, not for me. For you, absolutely-it’s beneficial and you should do it.
As with all things with F3, there is value and benefit for all involved, however it takes commitment to see those benefits. Posting in the morning (or afternoon) doesn’t just happen. It takes planning, dedication, commitment, and motivation. It takes getting out of the fartsack when you don’t want to. Especially when you don’t want to. When you realize this is a mutually beneficial issue, the “getting up out of the fartsack” is really not that hard. When you realize the guy struggling next to you needs you, I mean REALLY needs you, getting out of bed is not a factor. You do it. That’s it-plain and simple. I think that is how the Whetstone thing works-putting in the time to make the process happen and working the system how it is supposed to work benefits both men. Once you realize this, great things will happen. I realize many days when I get out of bed to post and I think I am helping the guy next to me, the real person benefitting is looking at me in the mirror.
As I am writing this, I looked at something on Twitter about Jocko and his latest podcast summary by Leif Babin: he talks about “how much you learn by teaching others. You learn so much when you’re instructing. Not only because you have to think about what you say, and you have to be able to articulate why, and that makes you dig deep into the reason why. And then you get to detach, and actually watch it unfold and watch these little minor mistakes happen.” This is exactly what happened this morning for me. Although we have a Q for the Q Source discussions, I think we all teach each other with discussions like this morning. Thanks for keeping this F3 thing going guys. It really has meant a lot to me over the last 4 years.
Proverbs 27:17
thanks-Whoopee