Experience

"At the end of the next 20 years you can have 20 years experience - or you can have one year's experience 20 times. It's a matter of choice."
- Richard G Nixon (b 1940)American entrepeneur, publisher, author,speaker, seminar leader

Still reeling from yesterday night's devastating result - Chelsea going out of the Champion's League. Yes, I know it's just a sport, but you need to let life touch you (but don't let it kill you!).

What is experience, really? Is it just particpating in events over time? Or must it be something more? Do you have to learn from the event, and so shape future events? Or is repetition of the event also a form of useful experience? Is repetition merely practice rather than experience? We talk about having 5 years experience or 10 years experience, but surely it is events rather than time that should take centre stage.

This is worth pondering about. But my simple take is coined from Jim Rohn:

"Don't just get through the day; get from the day" - Jim Rohn