07.05.06
On experience and a general footnote
What exactly is experience? And why even with significant experience, you could still make mistakes?
Experience, to me, is having done something before and “experiencing” the outcome. Scientifically, it only works for very repetitive activities that you do a fair number of times. In practice, there are a lot of things that we decide and do only a few times and does having experience with the few occassions really help? (In fact, sometimes it makes it worser especially when wicked variables team up and work against you, giving you false sense of associativity.) Furthermore, these decisions/actions comprise a lot of different variables that somehow make each situation unique.
From a management perspective, academics talk about the ability to see the context and generalize the principles. Acquiring this ability, strangely but surely enough, requires experience. Then, based on this principle, one way to accelerate your experience acquisition is through varied experiences (as opposed to repetitive experiences). By experiencing the spectrum, it should help you to identify the true constants, the nearly constants, the variables and entirely ill-defined non-functions.
One general footnote: People who enjoy power dislike power being taken away from them and when that happens, they would exercise/exaggerate their remaining power.