I remembered reading once or twice from friends that they would chance upon the blog every now and then, and then I thought to myself, maybe there should be more intentional learning points.
I didn’t really work on that, until yesterday, I thought about it again.
So here’s a learning point:
Never skip a step in a instructional manual
I mean this is common sense, but a lot of people lack it.
Most of the things we have bought or purchased, they’re not actually something we’re familiar with. Unless you’ve gotten it before. But even then, if you just assumed that you know how to use something without reading the manual, that’s a huge assumption.
Someone on the development team would have sat down and wrote the step by step instructions, covering every need you’d require with that tool. There was a reason for it being written, and it would not hurt you in any way to read it.
In fact, there are a lot of instructions around us most of the time, that tells you what to do and what not to do, and following that would result in optimal use.
But a lot of the time, we don’t read it, and it just ends up spoiling, or not working so well. Then it breaks down and then we get another thing.
So save us all some effort, and be appreciative of the guy who wrote the stuff down, and just read the manual, and don’t skip a step.
If you think about it, the only things that don’t have a manual are usually idiot proof things. So you could be an idiot and be happy with that, or you could just read the manual and not be an idiot.