NWBH: Not WHAT but HOW

NWBH: Not What but How

Synopsis: 

This is an important principle that applies at all times in everything we do.

It's not WHAT you do, it's the way HOW you do it.
That's what gets results. \

You can try hard
Don't mean a thing
Take it easy, greasy
Then your jive will swing

Vigorous energy and effort on its own, without getting the technique of "how" correct, will not yield successful results.

But if you get both the WHAT and the HOW correct, then "your jive will swing" means you will be pleased with the success and favorable side effects that results.

Tain't What You Do

(writers: Sy Oliver / James Young)
(If you're going to listen to this, the authoritative version is Jimmy Lunceford. Modern versions, have been simplified and corrupted)

When I was a kid about half past three
My ma said "Daughter, come here to me"
Said things may come, and things may go
But this is one thing you ought to know...

Oh 't ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
'T ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
'T ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
That's what gets results

'T ain't what you do it's the time that you do it
'T ain't what you do it's the time that you do it
'T ain't what you do it's the time that you do it
That's what gets results

You can try hard
Don't mean a thing
Take it easy, greasy
Then your jive will swing

Oh 't ain't what you do it's the place that you do it
'T ain't what you do it's the time that you do it
'T ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
That's what gets results
(end of song)


T'aint = It ain't.
ain't
/ānt/
INFORMAL
contraction
unpunctuated: aint
am not; are not; is not.
"if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
has not; have not.
"they ain't got nothing to say"