>How important is it for someone to have experience in a world where
>tomorrow will not be like today? The world has fundamentally changed
>from the old orderly organized world to today's diverse, fast changing
>unorganized world.
Dear Simon,
I think I understand the point you are making. Here's what I'm thinking
about experience.
Experience has indeed helped me find peace and confidence amid a rapid
changing world. However it is not specific event/artifact related
experience, per se, but process/pattern related experience. It is not
"what" I found or did, but "how/why" I found or did.
I should be more careful and say it is not the "what" only, but the
"how/why" as well. It is the process/pattern related experience as well
as the event/artifact related experience.
In some of our work we use a couple of Interel products (Sentinel and
Maze) to explore some of the deeper human elements of structure. We ask
the group "of what value is the path through the two or three dimensional
maze if it changes constantly?" Then they begin to see it is more a
situation of learning how to learn than one of learning a specific outcome
(or as well as). So in this example, the experience is in how to learn
more so than an experience in finding a specific answer -- one which may
not be valid tomorrow.
I think the comments made by Lon Badgett in LO posting LO14512 make a lot
of sense here as well. There is a difference between 1000 different
one-hour experiences and 1000 repetitions of the same one-hour experience.
With 1000 different one-hour experiences under the belt, my guess is that
new insights are synthesized from this composite wealth of experience in
ways we can only imagine until it happens.
John
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