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Practically everything I know I learned trying building something that was beyond my reach.
Not everything works. If the first thing that happens when it doesn't work is it frightens you, then you won't be willing to embrace change. When things don't work, which is almost always, you can figure out how tinker with these things and just absorb what happens. Tinkering brings thought and action together in some powerful, magical ways.
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