# Chapter 110

Like we were saying yesterday practice makes perfect. Doing is what makes us, develops us and instructs us. We need to do. I am usually more relaxed down here at my dad’s place because we are doing doing doing. It’s simple and straightforward job after job of doing. Not that many mentally taxing jobs down here on the farm though there are a few. Mostly just doing and doing, in a sense, practicing and practicing. Some see it as repetition rather than practice because it is usually the same old jobs over and over. But your efficiency improves and your processes get sharper, if you allow them.

The best part of practicing or doing is how concrete and measurable it is compared to thought work or people work or idea work. There is a sense of completing something all the way on the farm that my average days elsewhere don’t. Thinking, ideas and people are not as tidy as farm tasks. They have endless loose ends and segues and rabbit holes. Oh farm work and chores are endless and relentless, but when this job is done today it is done today. There is a special sense of satisfaction that results from that experience.

On the other hand, if you want to move the culture, change the world, shift the influence, impact justice initiatives and stuff like that, then you have to understand the tradeoff is incremental progress, snail-pace improvements, long long timeframes, tiny advancement, and minuscule growth. But this paragraph is about a long game, not working on the farm.