My kids were shocked that I’d signed up for snowboarding lessons with them.
I’ve been snowboarding since I was probably 14.That’s a lot of years.
Why would I need lesson?
I’d never had one. Not once. I learned by rolling down the hill for months. There was this bump with two trails, a chair lift, and tow rope about 20 minutes from my house. We’d talk someone’s mom into driving us, and a bunch of us would pay $12 to get the sh*t kicked out of us for a few hours.
If you stuck with it long enough, eventually you figured it out.(Maybe a lesson there was well. It’s a two for one kind of day.)
So I asked my kids, “Should I stay where I’m at or should I get better? Do I know all there is to know?”
Answer: “Of course not.”
So, the three of us took a lesson. It was so cold (windchill -35) that my little guy only lasted 40 minutes, so he and I bailed.
Think about the math here for a second. I paid for three lessons. Three. Not just mine, but my two kids. I only got 40 minutes of a 60-minute lesson. If I’d known what at impact that lesson would have had, I would have happily paid double.
Read that again. This guy took me from being ok on a blue and snowplowing down a black to full-speed on blues and comfortable on blacks in 40 minutes. How long will I have that skill?
FOREVER.
I’m faster, safer and can comfortably go down more trails. What is that worth over the next 20 or so years of my snowboarding career? You see the value isn’t in that one lesson. The value is in the skill that you take with you FOREVER.
That’s the key to Physician Assistant Exam Scholars too.I n the scholars’ program, you’ll learn skills that easily worth 10x what you pay for them. Why? Because you haven’t upgraded your skills for years, and what you learn will be with you FOREVER. Not just the next test, but the one after that, and the one after that, and on and on.
The February issue goes over different types of knowledge and different types of learning. There’s more than one way to skin a cat and some ways are better than others. If you haven’t tried anything new in a while… well let’s just say there may be a better way.
Let’s make 2022 a fantastic year together.
Physician Assistant Exam Scholars
Brian Wallace
