It’s all in the details. That is something I say all the time. It is also something I struggle with as I tend to be a bit impatient. For reasons I can’t explain, I’m always in a hurry to get the job done. It’s a fault of mine, this attitude of, that’s good enough. Perhaps that is why I don’t have a specialty, that one thing I am expert at, I just don’t take the time to learn it all. But then I say to myself, you know it, but it isn’t going to make a difference, this is good enough.

Occasionally it is the details that cause all the problems. What we call the nuances of a skill. The subtle changes. When that happens to me I would just ask someone else for advice. I’m not surrounded by experts anymore, being retired and out of the workforce. In fact, I have few friends around today, I live a fairly isolated life. Not complaining, just explaining. As luck would have it though, I have the internet. An entire world of experts! The only challenge being, which one is really the expert?

I do turn to that resource for more detailed information about whatever. As I have said in the past I have a wide range of interests and so require a wide range of experts to advise me. I can spend hours reading and looking at You Tube videos concerning the project I am currently involved with. Despite its’ downside I find the internet to be quite a valuable tool in the proverbial toolbox. It sure has helped me out on many occasions. What I learn are the details, those subtle little tricks of the trade.

There is an old idiom, there is more than one way to skin a cat. I’ve heard that since I was a kid and wondered why you would want to skin a cat. I understood the meaning though, just curious about the action. I have seen on You Tube that there is indeed more than one way you can get the job done, often quicker and easier than the official way. Those methods are the tricks of the trade. They are learned through experience. Some call them shortcuts and feel that it is somehow cheating. I don’t feel that way at all, I feel like that is the details. Experience over education. I can read about it, doesn’t mean I can do it. I don’t need to explain why it works, I just need it to work. Still, it’s all in the details isn’t it?