Have We Forgotten How To Fix Things? - The Lost Art Of Figuring It Out!

I mean, how many of you out there can actually say, I can fix a flat or I've had to fix a flat?

But here's the thing too.

We are not judging.

I mean, no, no.

Because I don't know how to fix a flat.

I

bet you could figure it

out.

I may be able to figure it out.

But here, that's the thing.

Can you figure it out? Can you give yourself the time to sit down and learn something new instead of just like outsourcing it or giving it to somebody else or saying, forget it?

I mean, I've been on ranches and had to sew buttons on my shirts because they all fall off, you know? And one thing that I do struggle with, and you usually have to do it for me, and that's how to tie a tie.

Tying a tie is a little tricky.

Yeah, that's why I try not to wear one.

You could look sharp in a tie.

Well, funerals and weddings.

Is that your tie? Yeah,

that's about it.

So I want to know, did knowing how to fix things teach previous generations something bigger than just practical skills?

Yes.

Because when you were born in my generation, even the generation before me, people... had to rely, sure, on knowledge, but also common sense and your neighbor.

You had to fix something.

If something broke, it wasn't like, oh, let me get on the computer.

I'm going to go to Amazon, order me another, and Pony Express, get it here today.

You know, there was none of that.