Quote Originally Posted by prakel View Post
The thing is, this is an unusual hobby in the sense that most people don't get to clock up that many hours of actual 'hands on' during the course of any twelve month period so they really do need to actually do it for themselves and to have the drive to search for information.
And that's another thing. Some will immerse themselves in a subject. research and rehearse "what if" scenarios, develop disaster management strategies and generally think ahead.

Others will just call their (by now exhausted) mentor when the inevitable swarm occurs.