Practice Or Experience

With experience comes wisdom.

We’ve heard these time-worm pearls (and others just as sage) before.  In many ways they’re true and have withstood generational shifts and time because the simplicity of the message.  Life is a continuum, a progressive build of yesterdays.

In physical sports, other games of skill, and tasks requiring finesse (like the perfect meringue for a key lime pie), practice can mean perfection.  Faster judgment, quicker reaction, alternative response to a fluid situation. Practice can mean cultivating an eye for measurement, an intuitive sense of an opponent’s mindset.  It can mean anticipating the next move.  Knowing where the tipping point is and standing right there.  On. The. Edge.

And if you can anticipate your competitor’s next move in an unstable market quickly, well then.  You’ve really got something there.  You know where *they’re* going.  Now the issue becomes, where are you going?

Enter experience.  Born of past triumph and tragedy, experience emerges to form a fervent, driving force to direct our actions and inform our plans.  Experience is a guiding light at its source a calculated risk hedged with research, intuition, and instinct.  Part street smarts, part foresight.

With experience, you can channel all you’ve practiced into something useful and real.  Something big and memorable.

Practice is a smooth, ingrained routine that tells you where to look.  Experience is the memory of a bruise that tells you to feint right and strike with your left hook.  You need them both to come out on top.