All of those? Yes, if you want to achieve mastery.
No, if you just want to enjoy them.
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Let me add welding. Also, yes mastery.
Well, that's a lot harder and is more difficult now. Not impossible, but you have to be willing to allow yourself to suck while being very repetitive.
My father-in-law's father did a lot of very cool metal work art that's around my wife's grandmas house and it does make me think about how fun that would be. But seriously though, I get it, and frankly I'm not a fan of people who drop $10,000 to pick up a hobby talk about it for 2 weeks and then storage all the shit. I am going to start studying the ancient greek though, it seems like the more important endeavor at the moment
Lol!
The friend who's shop I was in yesterday knows a guy just like that. Bought top-level stuff and has no effing clue what to do with it. He has a very long-suffering wife.... 😅
I guess if you have money to burn...but sometimes these folks insufferably make you listen to their new hobby and you just _know_ it'll be over in 2 weeks.
Yup.
ESPECIALLY after they ask for advice, then ignore it.
That's really the thing isn't it.
Seriously tho', I've recently returned to reading the Bible and my good friend is a classics and ancient greek guy (in addition to be an excellent lawyer) and his insights into the word based on returning to the original greek are so fuckin' valuable it's a wonder people can read the Bible in English at all.