Years ago, I tried my hand at skiing. I was never much good. But the ice was the real problem. I never knew how to handle it. Everyone told me something different and no matter what I tried, I was always totally out of control. The more ice there was on the slope, the more out of control I was. After a couple of years of frustration, an inability to figure out how to manage the ice problem and no real progress in my skiing technique, I just gave up on it.

Now, many years later, I read the same thing from somoene who knows that they are doing. How come it seemed like I was the only one who didn’t know how to handle the ice? I wonder what it might have been like if I had read that many years ago.