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Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

Episode 249: Italian trumpet aquarium

Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

I Like To Make Stuff

Design, Crafts, Leisure, How To, Arts, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto talk about learning for the sake of learning. What We’re Working On Jimmy Diresta: Is going to learn trumpet and Italian David Picciuto: Removed the router from the table, had a welding lesson. Bob Clagett: Between The Builds coming up, made a podcast table

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0:00.0

So I'm going to catch you guys off guard and ask you a question that we may have talked about recently, but maybe not.

0:08.0

Is there a thing that you're interested in that you would be willing to learn that doesn't relate to the business that's

0:14.8

just purely for your own like to get better to be broader to be more, I don't know, just to expand yourself.

0:25.4

What would be a thing that you would be willing to put in like daily study or

0:29.8

daily practice or something like that just to learn a thing that's not related to making stuff.

0:37.0

Languages, I've tried several times, I've tried Farsi because I was in a long-term relationship with an Iranian young lady years ago and that didn't last. I learned stuff, it went away.

0:50.0

And then I was always going to China, so I was trying to learn how to speak Chinese.

0:54.4

And that went away, that didn't last.

0:57.0

And then Taylor and I were trying to learn Italian together, and I gave up on that.

1:02.2

But yeah, learning another language is

1:03.7

it's impossible for me. It's not impossible. Not impossible,

1:07.2

not impossible, but it's impossible for me to stick with it, so therefore

1:10.6

defaults to impossible.

1:11.7

But it's not impossible. Now it's just one of those

1:16.8

things you got to really really want it and then you know I figured when I was

1:20.4

learning Farsi which is the Iranian language I was learning Farsi, which is the Iranian language, I was learning because we basically

1:26.1

lived together.

1:27.1

This was when I was in my 20s.

1:28.6

And so that was easy, but if you ask me now, can't remember anything but you know when you're

1:34.2

with somebody and then also in Hong Kong working with a lot of the factory

1:37.4

managers and stuff everybody spoke Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese and I was

1:41.8

learning a little of both and I had I don't know 25 words 30 words back that you know I can't remember anything now I can't actually count from one to 10 I think but I'd have to think about it for a minute.

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