What is Experience and How Can One Gain the Right Experience?

What is Experience and How Can One Gain the Right Experience?

The word experience can sometimes be very confusing. If you ask a person who is just out of his college after getting a degree – ‘What is your experience?’
He will probably say – ‘I am a fresher. I don’t have any experience.’

The question is – Is he right in his saying?

To get the right answer, one needs to understand the real meaning of the word ‘experience.’ If you google, you will get many different meanings of the word ‘experience.’

I have come up with my own understanding of the word ‘experience.’

Here is what I have understood – Experience is what you do regularly in your minutes.

Let’s take an example. Say, a student is studying in a college. In the three years of his college life, he has always been late.

What has he been doing on a regular basis?

Coming late!

So, we can say that he has three years of experience of ‘coming late to class.’

Similarly, if a student is always before time for his classes and submits all his assignments on time, then he has a full three years experience of right time management.

On the lighter side, if after work, you have been watching television on a daily basis for the last five years, then you have five years experience of sitting and watching the television. And you will find yourself doing it quite effectively.

Every day, we all get new twenty four hours and every day we do many things, most of which are out of our habits. This is what becomes what we know as experience.

So, everybody who has lived for a considerable amount of time on this planet has some kind of experience.

Now, having understood the meaning of experience, ask yourself –

1. What is my current experience?2. What kind of experience do I want to develop?

Do I want to be a great public speaker?

Or, do I want to be good as a team leader?

Start doing things in your minutes that will make you a great public speaker or a team leader over a considerable period of time.

Knowing that you want to be a great public speaker and not developing the courage to stand up and speak in a class or any other public gathering will not give you the experience of becoming a public speaker. Instead, you will develop the negative experience of being shy in front of the audience. Every time, you will tend to behave according to your experience. You will only do what you have experienced in the past.

Knowing alone is not enough to gain experience. Doing the right action will help you gain the right experience.

So, are you ready to gain a new and a right kind of experience?

Yes?

Then, identify what is it that you want to be good at, and then start taking the necessary actions on a regular basis with passion that will make you an experienced individual in that particular skill.

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