I call it a life cycle

No matter how smart one is or how gifted one is, there is one thing it can never replace or surpass. In my opinion, that one thing is called experience. It's not a physical mass that exists in this world and neither can you put a value to it. It's simply something you have to hone and pick up as you go.

Experience manifests itself very distinctively in one aspect of our daily lives - our workplace. Every working day, is like a demonstration of experience by those around me - demonstrating the what, how, why and when in performing their duties. Believe me, you can find really amazingly capable people! On the flip side however, you will also find that those who are not so amazing but then again, granted given that not everyone are born into this world to do amazing things.

Yesterday, my boss told me something quite interesting. We were discussing about some project and the topic about technical knowledge was brought up. Like any other office, even my workplace cannot avoid water cooler topics. As usual, there will always be people saying another person is not as good or technically sound, etc. My boss had a very good response to such behaviour.

He said, "All these people who go around saying that person is not technically sound. What makes them so sure they are any better? They should look in the mirror first."

Personally, I couldn't agree more with him. More often than not we indulge in judging the capabilities of others forgetting where we stand. At the end of the day, no matter where we go, we will stumble into some who are abnormal good at what they do and those who are not as good as one might expect of them to be. But isn't that all about learning curve, different people different learning curve?

I call it a life cycle, just like how you and I learn to walk before we can run on our own two feet. Life is a long time of learning and just picking up the skill and knowledge like picking up unique shaped stones while you are walking on a beach. Mistakes, misses, wrong turns are all part of that "stone picking" process we go through. We can't pick nice stones all the time can we?

It's a life cycle! We just have to stroll through it and not try to run ahead of ourselves.........