Learned an interesting and handy new term the other day, kind of the opposite of unobtainium..

[Fumesucker]

5. There's an old saying amongst us technical types..

Technical skill is in direct proportion to the amount of equipment you have ruined..

Which is a fancy way of saying that you learn more from what you do wrong than what you do right.

Arthur Clarke once said that in order to learn the limits of the possible you have to venture at least a short distance into the impossible. Well, I've ventured quite a way into the impossible and have taken copious mental notes on what does not work from sometimes quite literally painful experience.

On one technically oriented forum I frequent that deals with scratch built electric vehicles they have two relevant acronyms, KFF and KFH, they stand for Kentucky Fried Finger and Kentucky Fried Hand..

A KFF looks like this..



And a KFH looks like this..



So keep on trying, every time you screw up you learn something new about what does not work, most of us who are better at it have just had more practice in discovering new and sometimes painful ways to break stuff even worse than it was broken in the first place.