While waiting at the doctor's office one day about five or ten years ago, I considered how doctors work and the medical industry. I remembered industry phrases about how doctors hang a shingle and "open their practice." Suddenly I realized, "He is practicing on me!"
Doctors and lawyers practice, and we pay them "expert" wages for their exploration and learning ... on us. These professionals constantly learn and study, observe and state what they know best, so far. We believe them, usually.
So, why can't we extend the same to ourselves? We could do well with that kind of liberality and breathing room, that kind of expansive freedom.
Maybe we don't have to have "perfect" lives. Maybe it is the practice of living that makes it perfect, not the actual perfection of it.
If good doctors and lawyers can't accept their own failures, what then?
This site communicates around the idea that "Practice Makes Perfect" in real, everyday living. Yes, it applies to football and piano lessons.
It also applies to being a parent, I think. This value can extend into career, art, family, and maybe it would be really helpful if people extended it into faith or religion, which are two separate subjects for many.
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