The first time I learned how to ride a bike, I had training wheels.
If you really break it down, training wheels are tools.
They are tools that are designed to help you stay stable.
If you're trying to solve for the need for stability, there are other tools available for that as well.
The hands of your parents for instance.
Training wheels just have a bit more endurance than your parents' hands, so they won the day.
Once you graduate from needing to use training wheels, what you've really graduated from,
is the need to have assisted stability.
Assisted stability is no longer a need for you because your body just knows how to be stable.
Now you can start to focus on other things.
Let's look at something else.
Suppose I'm cooking dinner for my family and I'm following a recipe.
If you really break it down, a recipe is a tool.
It is a tool that is designed to help guide me step-by-step from nothing to a finished dish.
If I'm trying to solve for the need for guidance, there are other tools available for that too.
My mum—the best chef I know—could just stand behind me the entire time and just tell me what to do.
Recipes have more patience than our parents, so they won the day.
Once I no longer need a recipe, I've graduated from the need for a step-by-step guide.
The steps are intuitive and I can start to focus on other things.
These examples lead to two basic truths about tools:
When we're first learning something, tools are very useful.
Eventually our initial tools transform into intuition.
When you're a beginner, it's easy to be fooled by looking at those who are not beginners and thinking that what they do is somehow out of reach for you.
It's not.
Their tools are just hidden in their intuition, which makes the tools the invisible to you.
It's very likely that they started with the exact same tools you currently have.
Give it time.
The training wheels will come off eventually.
