Experience is costly. You can not gain experience without paying the price. Experience is a tough teacher that gives you the test first and the lessons later. All our past experiences both good and bad modified and shaped us into what we are today. They influence our decisions and choices in life.
Experience serves as a stool on which we climb to the next level in life. For us to grow from where we are now to the next level we must first pass through a process (a trial or a price to pay) to qualify us for the new position.
For a child to be promoted from class 1 to class 2, he must first pass through some tests and trials. His performances at these tests will determine if he is qualfied to be promoted or not. These trials and tests he goes through are the experiences he needed to get qualified for the new position. A child who desire to walk must first get up and fail. He gathered himself up again and tried several times until he can stand and walk without aid. Experience makes us grow.
Experience is like a teacher that impacts knowledge on us and makes us wiser. It makes us better at what we do or intend to do. When you are new at a thing, you could be lost on what to do. In this case, you would have to rely on other people's knowledge and experience or seek and gather information to scale through. You will need to be taught or trained. But with what you have done before when you are asked to do it again, you will need little or no supervision and even do it better this time. Reason why most companies ask for people with experience in their chosen fields as part of their requirements for employment.
LEARNING FROM PAST EXPERIENCES
For a past experience to be useful (either good or bad experience), it must be evaluated and reflected upon and the lesson therein drawn. An experience that is not evaluated and learned from is just a waste of time.
Experience can be used as a defence mechanism by which we protect ourselves against the reoccurence of a past hurt or failure, a mistake. It serves as a reflection/ evaluating tool by which we could assess or gauge the consequences of our decisions or choices in the nearest future.
If the experience happened to be good (positive) we will embrace it and do it again but if it happened to be negative (a mistake or failure) we will avoid and prevent it from happening again. You can not make the same mistake again unless you refused to learn from the past. A mistake made the second time is no longer a mistake but a choice. An unexamined life is not worth living. Examine your past, evaluate and learn from them.
NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES
Every negative experience in the past should not be seen as a failure. Life is about experiencing the good times and the difficult times. Sometimes, we need to experience the hard time before we can enjoy and appreciate the good time.........
* For how else shall we truly appreciate the light without first experiencing what darkness is?
* We may not fully appreciate success unless we have experienced failure a number of time?
* How can we know and appreciate mercy if we have never come face to face with
* How shall we recognise love if hatred is alien to us?
* How can we identify the Good if we have no knowledge of the existence of Evil?
The reward of your sweat tastes sweet because you have experienced what it is like to lack. You know what it is to work hard before you can eat and have the good things of life. A person that work really hard for his money will not spend such money anyhow. It will be spent judiciously on things of value. Only the person that didn't work hard for his money spent it lavishly and wastefully.
So when life brings difficulties your way, see it as a process you need to go through, a stepping stone to your next level. It's part of the tools you need in working out an excellent future for yourself.
-Alasake
Excellent motication!
ReplyDeleteThank you Gergely
DeleteWow, wise words. Good motivation.
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