A great topic came up in another thread and rather than continue to hijack that thread, I thought I'd start this one! And then I realized I should have put this in the SKILLS forum! So I posted it in there too! 
Learning a skill is very different from practicing a skill already learned. Learning a skill often takes more than just reading a book! I tried that for over a decade with primitive skills, and it took a lot of work and I still couldn't get some things to work out. I traded/bought some videos from Ron Hood and my learning curve went nearly vertical!! Watching and listening somebody else who knows what they are doing increases the speed of learning.
An even better method of learning the skills is to have that person actually teaching right beside you! They can correct errors immediately and answer questions on the spot! They help you spend your learning time more efficiently and increase the speed of the learning process.
Practicing skills comes in after the skill has been learned! Proper practice is useful to retain the skill and can be done alone. It is not the time where the skill is first learned.
Therefore, I feel any amount of money a person wishes to spend on LEARNING skills is money well spent!
In the long run, it is a wise investment! As an example, I feel spending $395 on a course to learn how to create fire from Cody Lundin would be a real value!! He is a master of consistently creating fire in some very extreme conditions and everybody could learn something from him.
Also, learning is a two way street. Many teachers find they learn every time they teach, because students often look at things differently! Students either ask questions that cause one to look at a situation from a different angle or have a new tidbit of information to share!
Learning a skill is very different from practicing a skill already learned. Learning a skill often takes more than just reading a book! I tried that for over a decade with primitive skills, and it took a lot of work and I still couldn't get some things to work out. I traded/bought some videos from Ron Hood and my learning curve went nearly vertical!! Watching and listening somebody else who knows what they are doing increases the speed of learning.
An even better method of learning the skills is to have that person actually teaching right beside you! They can correct errors immediately and answer questions on the spot! They help you spend your learning time more efficiently and increase the speed of the learning process.
Practicing skills comes in after the skill has been learned! Proper practice is useful to retain the skill and can be done alone. It is not the time where the skill is first learned.
Therefore, I feel any amount of money a person wishes to spend on LEARNING skills is money well spent!
In the long run, it is a wise investment! As an example, I feel spending $395 on a course to learn how to create fire from Cody Lundin would be a real value!! He is a master of consistently creating fire in some very extreme conditions and everybody could learn something from him. Also, learning is a two way street. Many teachers find they learn every time they teach, because students often look at things differently! Students either ask questions that cause one to look at a situation from a different angle or have a new tidbit of information to share!
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