While I was in the service I sat through a lecture on Claymore mines. During the setup demonstration the instructor told us to avoid kinking the wire because it wouldn't let enough juice get to the mine. When the lecture reached the Q&A stage, my friend Larry raised his hand and asked the trainer if electricity worked like a garden hose because kinking the wire restricted the flow. The instructor responded with an enthusiastic "yes". We both laughed up our sleeve because as arrogant avionics technicians, we knew that's not how electricity works. In his defense, his job didn't involve the repair of high tech electronic equipment. He was a grunt, the backbone of the Marine Corps. He was probably better at marching or cleaning guns than we were.
Now fast forward about 20 years to last week when I was discussing a problem we were having on a machine with a coworker. He showed me a part he had replaced and explained that he changed it because he noticed frayed insulation on one of the wires and figured "it wasn't letting enough electricity get through". I ignored my natural instinct to correct his mistake, it would only have fallen on deaf ears. You see this is the kind of person who figures because he is older than me and once had a job carrying tools and drilling holes for an electrician, he has a clearer understanding of the true nature of electricity than I do. How can anyone feel like there's nothing left to learn?
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I often ask myself that question. When we think we know it all and stop trying to learn, we stop growing and usually that is followed quickly by death, weather figuratively or literally.
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