Troubleseeker

Experience - A fairy tale

Once upon a time there was a wizard. Bearing an unpronounceable name, his devout fans affectionately gave him the name Knut. The grumpy old wizard he was, Knut did not like to leave his luxurious tower. Yet he was admired for his special talent to summon the finest apples. Once a year he would step out on his balcony, bathing in cheers by his loyal fans, the sheep people.

“This day,” Knut thought by himself “is going to be a good apple day”. He felt surprisingly vivid today on his two-hundred-and-fify-third apple summoning. “I have summoned two-hundred-and-fifty-two apples. Nothing can go wrong today because I know exactly how to summon the finest apple”. Knut stopped for a second. He suddenly remembered a nightmare he recently had in which one of his fans demanded that he summons an orange. In his dream he did not know the secrets of the orange thus wanting to strike the foolish peon with a fireball – but then he realized he did not know how to cast a fireball either. “All these years I’ve been summoning apples and that is all I do. Can I call myself a wizard after all?”

When he did not show up that day, the sheep people decided that it is time to move on and shortly after found the next great wizard that they could praise.

your experience cannot be expressed in time

“I am taking pictures for X years or I am designing web pages for X years” does not mean anything. You could be doing the same wrong boring unreflected thing over and over again – for years. You could be shooting five hundred graduate pictures every semester and still not learn anything in ten years.