Playing the guitar, fishing, golfing, rock-climbing, sculpting, and painting all demand mastery of stubborn tools that often fail to do what we want.
It struck me that Doig, in these two paintings, had gone deeper into his own imagination than ever before, and that his mastery of the tools of painting now seemed limitless.
He had trained, in the seventies, at the Workshop of Hard Stones and Laboratories of Restoration, in Florence, the only restoration school in the world where the mastery of woodworking tools is still de rigueur.
On-the-job training and high-quality online courses are critical in powering proficiency and mastery of these tools that make up the fabric of the modern workplace.
It requires subtlety, patience, empathy and the mastery of the tools at your disposal each of which carries a specific set of benefits, best practices and tactics.
As change drives repeated strategising/organising, it is mastery of the tools and procedures that matters, at least as much as the perfection of any transitory design.
Trevarthen (2012), p.303 points to this experience: "Mead and Vygotsky value the social influence, the making of a self in relations with others, and the mastery of cultural tools by highly cooperative, communicating young persons, sharing minds".
Young people, like the rest of us, have ready access to almost infinite information, but with their mastery of new tools and unjaded creativity of youth, they may be singularly well prepared to impact the world with it.
Technical mastery of the tool enabled learners to integrate it into their daily lives 3).
They marveled not just at his mastery of the theoretical tools, but also his first-hand feel for rural America.
