How tall is your table?

# Chapter 253

After years of sitting at this table writing emails and texts and typing endless hours I realized that the table is too tall for me when I touch type, or for the uninitiated, correctly typing. Though as slow as I am typing this morning it will be tomorrow before I finish this idea. The obscure point that I am making here, is that I did not realize that this table was too tall until I started doing the activity correctly. Literally decades of communicating at this table and it is too tall.

This imperfection did not cause a lack of production, my hunt-and-peck style of “typing” was what hindered productivity, not the table height. The table height never entered the equation until I started doing the activity correctly. Then awareness of the table height came to light. This is all designed to point out that there will always be problems and that even if you resolve all current problems more will come later. You will not ever lack a problem to solve. But all this talk about the table height distracts us from the real underlying issue or rather the central issue. I was typing slow and incorrectly, because I had never learned how to type correctly and that was what was limiting production. And then typing programs arrived and it was no longer that I did not know how to type that was the problem, it was instead that I did not have the patience and/or discipline to unlearn what I had been doing wrong for years!

Even now at this moment it is so very tempting to go back to bad typing. Because while I am learning to type and unlearning my bad habits I can type about 25-30 wpm. But with my bad habits employed I can type 40-45 wpm. But I need to get to 60-65 wpm and the only way to do that is unlearn the bad and break those habits forever, and learning the type correctly and force myself to stay with it until I have the results that I need. The table height wants your attention, and to distract you from the real issues.