Comments on: Certification, experience and the real world http://www.richardwalker.com.au/2008/12/01/certification-experience-and-the-real-world/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:03:19 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew Knight http://www.richardwalker.com.au/2008/12/01/certification-experience-and-the-real-world/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Andrew Knight Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:32:02 +0000 http://www.richardwalker.com.au/?p=14#comment-17 You're exactly right, experience is education and unfortunately, most people of our today's society have forgot this simple statement. How do you think Albert Einstein got his light bulb to work, by reading books upon books of "How to make a light bulb work?", I don't think so. Sure, he wrote and wrote a bunch of theory, but only of what he learnt whilst he was practising...mmm it starts to make sense to people now. In order for one to learn, he or she must experience it first hand to allow the mind to soak and experiment as much as possible. By simply basing your assumptions on theories, your putting your trust in other people who have done the experience, which probably worked for them at the time, but due to our ever growing modern world, a possibility of it failing resides. But at the end of the day, it's ultimately your decision. Sure, your parents can teach you to learn, read and write then keep that pattern going for 15-20 years of your life, but it's you who has to make the decision to learn, to aspire to gain as much knowledge as humanly possible, to not only benefit yourself but everyone else around you and help our world get stronger and stronger, properly... Richard, I can attest to being a jack-of-all-trades, and even though you have many more years ahead of me, I believe it's excellent to have knowledge in so many areas. Unfortunately, this can work as a negative sometimes, not allowing you to focus on one thing with 100% focus, hence your suggestion of specialisation. I mean, where would we be now if we didn't have others who specialised? Nuclear Scientists, Automotive Engineers, Graphic Designers, Movie Stars, Electricians...and so on. As Richard suggested, it's important to gain knowledge everywhere you can but if you can focus on something more and make more $$, then do so. Thanks for your comment on my blog btw, I didn't expect to write such a hefty one myself haha. - A You’re exactly right, experience is education and unfortunately, most people of our today’s society have forgot this simple statement. How do you think Albert Einstein got his light bulb to work, by reading books upon books of “How to make a light bulb work?”, I don’t think so. Sure, he wrote and wrote a bunch of theory, but only of what he learnt whilst he was practising…mmm it starts to make sense to people now. In order for one to learn, he or she must experience it first hand to allow the mind to soak and experiment as much as possible. By simply basing your assumptions on theories, your putting your trust in other people who have done the experience, which probably worked for them at the time, but due to our ever growing modern world, a possibility of it failing resides.

But at the end of the day, it’s ultimately your decision. Sure, your parents can teach you to learn, read and write then keep that pattern going for 15-20 years of your life, but it’s you who has to make the decision to learn, to aspire to gain as much knowledge as humanly possible, to not only benefit yourself but everyone else around you and help our world get stronger and stronger, properly…

Richard, I can attest to being a jack-of-all-trades, and even though you have many more years ahead of me, I believe it’s excellent to have knowledge in so many areas. Unfortunately, this can work as a negative sometimes, not allowing you to focus on one thing with 100% focus, hence your suggestion of specialisation. I mean, where would we be now if we didn’t have others who specialised? Nuclear Scientists, Automotive Engineers, Graphic Designers, Movie Stars, Electricians…and so on. As Richard suggested, it’s important to gain knowledge everywhere you can but if you can focus on something more and make more $$, then do so.

Thanks for your comment on my blog btw, I didn’t expect to write such a hefty one myself haha.

- A

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