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  • I can’t do it now, but I want to.
  • Wanting to do” is not necessarily part of “being made” at this point in time.
  • Doing something expands what you “can do”.
  • There’s an X in that widened range.
  • Sometimes, after realizing this, they say, “I want to do X.”

concrete example

  • I was shown cutting a tree with a band saw.
  • I thought it was only big factories or something that could curve wood.
  • I never thought I would be allowed to use such a community center.
  • If wood can be cut in curves, can’t you make something like this? I want to make it!

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