Grow the tree, don't burn the fire.
A few years ago, I attended one semester at BYU-Idaho. Before I even got there I wanted to leave but there was one class that I know I needed to take there that I would not find anywhere else. This was Education 200. By the sounds of it, every single education major would take this class no matter where you were attending school. However, the book we used for the class was "Increase in Learning" by David A Bednar. The main premises of the course were based on spiritual principles and place them into a "secular" learning space like public school. The course's final principle was taught in the last half of the semester but it didn't really click for me till the last two weeks or so. People talk about passion using phrases like "She's on fire!" or refer to people "exploding with excitement" because of how progressive a person can be in their work. But! There is an issue to being on fire all the time, because eventually you can "bu...