Thinking with my hands
I watched a video from Justin Sung about notetaking and he mentioned something about his process that struck a cord:
- Make it wrong.
- Make it shorter.
- Make it again.
This somewhat describes the mental kinesthetics I go through before diving into making something for the first time. I gather just enough info to intuit what I think is the process is before diving in. Just like plans and enemy engagements, it never goes off without a hitch, but I learn a lot in the process, and I turn around and apply that knowledge immediately. This is what happened when I wrote about the process of making my journal in Making Stuff.
Mistakes are where we learn. Everything else is just emulation of information.