Never Pass Up an Opportunity to Learn

And I do mean learn anything. Because you never know when you're going to need a skill or an esoteric bit of knowledge. The knowledge element is especially true for novelists and private investigators like me because all those pieces of trivia come in handy when you're inventing a story. But an eclectic skill set is equally valuable in this age of job uncertainty where you never know where you'll be working next year.

I come from a long line of do-it-yourselfers (farmers), so I had a big head...