There is no fool like an old fool. I am that old fool, but what I just did is not so much foolish as it was ignorance. Ignorant is what one is before learning something unknown. So ignorant is not bad unless you never learn your way out of it. Ha!
I have been exploring a lot of new ideas and techniques I have never investigated. So that exploration is what I call a learning experience. I love learning experiences even when they highly frustrate me.
Controlled frustration is OK in my book. A few “grey” words may utter from my mouth but I soon recover. I say to myself, “Well, I won’t need to try that again, at least in THAT way.” Kind of like the Thomas Edison method. He wasn’t particularly smart or gifted, he was persistent. He learned by trial and error experiments. Like the famous light bulb filament story, he “discovered” thousands of types of material that were not suitable for a filament.
I just make every failure a learning experience. When the light bulb burns above my head, I know I have it right.