simone-cervellati
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I've been thinking about this for a while, and probably writing it down is sinning by pride.
My teacher once told me: "people that do this stuff are not normal, you have to be a bit crazy to do our job", then he thought about it and said: "Hell, I AM more than a bit crazy" then thought about it some more and said to me: "Ye'r crazy too, that's why you like this stuff!"
I don't think we're crazy, I started to think metalworking is making me smarter or, at least, sharper, hence I look crazy to the rest of the world.
I've been on this "train" for two years, and since I started I learned:
Plus a TON of informations on how machines work, how metals behave, what heat alone can do, and probably another 30 or 40 subjects and datas that are floating in my mind right now.
And last but not least I read somewhere that since hands have a huge numbers of nerve endings, precise work actually stimulates the brain and effectively makes you a bit smarter, or at least it's gonna keep you smart during the years.
So I'm sitting here reading a book about mnemonics and hoping one day I'll be able to show off by telling all the properties of any given kind of precious stone off the top of my head.. and wonder:
what strange skills and knowledge do the othe guys here have?
My teacher once told me: "people that do this stuff are not normal, you have to be a bit crazy to do our job", then he thought about it and said: "Hell, I AM more than a bit crazy" then thought about it some more and said to me: "Ye'r crazy too, that's why you like this stuff!"
I don't think we're crazy, I started to think metalworking is making me smarter or, at least, sharper, hence I look crazy to the rest of the world.
I've been on this "train" for two years, and since I started I learned:
- Another language (English since I'm Italian)
- Critical thinking (you start looking for the details and the finish and how something has been made etc..)
- Reverse Engineering (tell me there isn't somebody here that didn't try to figure out how something was made? how such technique looked that way when finished)
- Drawing, not much but now I can do it
- Speed reading (my teacher had this huge library how was I gonna read all of that stuff otherwise?)
- problem solving (when you want to do something in our craft you have to plan ahead, you don't want to riun precious stones or carefully crafted Items we are going to disassemble for engraving)
- Patience (no need to explain this)
Plus a TON of informations on how machines work, how metals behave, what heat alone can do, and probably another 30 or 40 subjects and datas that are floating in my mind right now.
And last but not least I read somewhere that since hands have a huge numbers of nerve endings, precise work actually stimulates the brain and effectively makes you a bit smarter, or at least it's gonna keep you smart during the years.
So I'm sitting here reading a book about mnemonics and hoping one day I'll be able to show off by telling all the properties of any given kind of precious stone off the top of my head.. and wonder:
what strange skills and knowledge do the othe guys here have?
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