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2. Hi CrispyQ...

I have another, related one:

It would take me an hour to explain this correctly, but here's another one that is kind of related.

I did a huge remodeling project once. I kept messing up this one thing in the project. About 10 times. I couldn't get it right. It actually stopped me in my tracks for a few days.

As it happened, I had a contractor over at the house on something unrelated. We started shooting the shit about life in general. Then I said "I've got a problem here and I don't know how to fix it". He asked me to show it to him.

He looked at it and simply said "Well, first, take a good look at what you have here". That's all he said.

I said "I've been looking at it for days".

He just repeated...Take a good luck at what you have here, you'll figure it out.

Then he sid "study it".

So I did. And I figured it out. And it took him saying "take a good look at what you have here" for me to figure it out.

I called him and said "How did you do that"?

He said "You were looking at it wrong, and I knew you would figure it out".

So that's another quote: "Take a good look at what you have here".

Basically, he was telling me that I wasn't seeing the forest for the trees.