From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017082002414526052-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I was really thinking about a general concept, something like " don't bite   
   > off more than you can chew ".   
      
   I'm not sure what kind of scenario you'd have in mind for that suggestion   
   but for myself, I'd be thinking in terms of wanting to play some material   
   that just might be more challenging, even very challenging, to play, but if   
   it's such a great song...then WORK on LEARNING how to play it well   
   beforehand...I've been there many times....and IT'S WELL WORTH THE   
   EFFORT!!!   
      
   > I know a few competitve people who with ruin anything they get involved in   
   > by pushing to constantly break it.  Give them a tool, something with a   
   > limit, and then watch them exceed that, and keep right on until they break   
   > the thing.  Everything has limits. You might improve those over time, but   
   > they are still there.   
      
   It's not about competition, but rather Expanding one's horizons - something   
   that should be Regularly Practiced over an entire lifetime!   
      
   > Some bands are all about a constant game of figuring out the weakest   
   > player and forcing them out, to be replaced by a "better " one.   
      
   How would they even know what 'better' even means?   
      
   > Then, once that is done, start over again trying to figure out who's the   
   > weakest NOW, and crowding thm out.   
      
   Until there's no longer a band at all.   
      
   > It's an endless cycle.   
      
   No, it ends when there's only one person remaining, and no more bandmates,   
   so no band.   
      
   > I've never seen it work, because it just doesn't.   
      
   It works fine - for eliminating a band that is ;)   
      
   > That attitude totally destroys any creation of teamwork, or trust. WIthout   
   > that, the organization won't last as a team.   
      
   I believe that long before such taking leave of ones' senses even begins,   
   there must first have long since been leaving of ones' attitudes of   
   creativity and teamwork!   
      
   > I ride when there isn't a lot of traffic, weekedays, mid day typically.   
      
   Jim   
      
   The Dangerous Idiots are there in any kind of traffic!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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