Experience may be a great teacher, but it’s not always a good teacher.
Anonymous
What have you leant from experiences? I suspect that for most of us the list of experiences is long and extensive.
Experiences that built us up.
Experiences that taught us not to go somewhere or do something.
Experiences that showed our limitations.
Experiences that we would happily relive every day.
Experiences that we will do anything to avoid them happening again.
Experiences that have taught us who to trust, and who to avoid.
Each of these experiences have formed a part of our character, parts of our personality and our way of thinking.
I approach a situations differently to you because my experience is different to yours.
Sometimes our experiences give us an intuition into a situation that others don’t have, but there are just as many times when our experience result in unhelpful bias. Our experience has taught us well, but hasn’t always taught us correctly.
It’s always a good time to build new experiences, perhaps it’s time to deliberately seek out experiences that challenge our biases.
Header Image: These are the edges of the paths near where I live – full of life.
Graham Chastney 