Quotes About Experience

I don't like the word 'education' because it is such an extraordinary abstraction. I'm very much in favor of learning. I'm much more skeptical of credentialing or the abstraction called 'education.' So

When you're earlier in your career, I think the best strategy is to just say 'yes' to everything. Every little gig. You just never know what are the lottery tickets.

lo peor que puede pasar es que acabe llevando una mochila y un saco de dormir

What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise? "You're too young." Most of history was built by young people. They just got credit when they were older.

The only way to truly learn something is by doing it. Yes, listen to guidance. But don't wait.

I think you'd love this puppy. Why don't you just take him home and see what you think? You can just bring him back if you change your mind.

Cuanto más asociamos la experiencia con el valor del dinero, más creemos que el dinero es lo que necesitamos para vivir.

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts (TW: @rolfpotts, rolfpotts.com). I

out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need—we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts. In this way, as we throw our wealth at an abstract notion called "lifestyle," travel becomes just another accessory—a smooth-edged, encapsulated experience that we purchase in the same way we buy clothing and furniture. Not

Vagabonding involves taking an extended time-out from your normal life—6 weeks, 4 months, 2 years—to travel the world on your own terms. But

Cuál es el peor consejo que ves u oyes dar en tu sector o área de conocimiento?

Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

Creo que la gente no aprende mucho en realidad del fracaso.

On the Advantage of Cultivating Beginner's Mind "Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place. When you have a lot of experience with something, you don't notice the things that are new about it. You don't notice the idiosyncrasies that need to be tweaked. You don't notice where the gaps are, what's missing, or what's not really working.

PICK THE RIGHT AUDIENCE TO SUCK IN FRONT OF "If anybody is going to go out and pitch investors, my advice is to make your first 10 meetings with investors that you don't really want funding from, because you're probably going to suck in the beginning. I sucked for a really long time." TF:

You will live when you live. No one else can ever live your life and no one else will ever know what you know...

Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.

I'd learned early that fatness in a book wasn't a warning sign, but rather a promise that you would be allowed to remain in its world for a longer time.

I'm looking forward to the most fascinating experience in life, which is dying.

People ask me how many times I've taken LSD--and I don't count. But it's the same thing when they ask me how many times I've made love. The answer is, not enough.

Timothy Leary

But what is so utterly foreign to many is the experience of falling in love with God. Religion, for them, is an intellectual exercise rooted in the individual conscience, rather than a response to a God who holds out a hand to say, 'Let's have an adventure!

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.