More Experience

An individual’s perception is made up of stacked lenses that alter the truth, which summarizes their own slice of reality. These lenses are experiences, and they can have major consequences to one’s quality of life. The experiences one buys and commoditize for status elude them the farthest away from the truth, and are the most spoiling for their character. Our money driven society feeds these illusions to individuals with a bias that they do not necessarily understand and purposefully…

While many people might consider the human art of thinking, and more predominantly, the act of creating knowledge as something that can only be achieved through first-hand experience or research, recent technological advancements within the last decade have led to many new ways of achieving this. Knowledge creation can be defined as the formation of new ideas which can be accomplished through interactions between explicit and implicit knowledge occurring during thought (Business Dictionary 2016)…

variable that can be measured by experiments or surveys. Such measurement is possible by stepping out of the subjective experience in order to grasp the objective meaning and any causal laws which might govern the cause and effect of jealousy (Stenner and Lazard, 2016). However, it has been argued that what appears to be a quantitative measurement of jealousy might be nothing more than a “statistical effect” generated by combined data from many participants (Stenner and Lazard,…

An experience i had like this was when i went scuba diving for the first time. My dad has been diving for a very long time, and i convinced him to take me with him when i was 10. I had always loved the ocean, so it was a very profound experience. We were staying at in a resort in Mexico, near Cancun. I’d been asking my dad to take me for years before, so they got me diving…

population of clients was struggling in their treatment more than other clients. The treatment team would evaluate treatment progress and if the client continued not to make any progress they would then decide if treatment was terminated. They would say the client is “not a good fit for the program”. I personally struggled with this. I did not think it was fair to the clients because I truly believed we could have been working together more effectively to assure the clients were receiving the…

knowledge, experience, and ability to create viable…

While learning allows us to gain knowledge on a subject, learning from our mistakes inspires us to make our own understanding and truths about the world around us and in our personal lives. Experience is the key that opens the door to wisdom. In “Solitude and Leadership,” Deresiewicz questions our system of education that trains students to not be able to think for themselves. Similarly, Hesse uses Siddhartha’s journey to enlightenment to illuminate the idea that certain revelations cannot be…

The Art of Fiction,” American writer Henry James implies that the secret to good writing is to infuse it with experience, whether vast or limited, authentic or cultivated through imagination. James reiterates that the writer’s process of gaining inspirational experience is never complete. Furthermore, he affirms that genius lies within the writer’s ability to openly collect experiences, and he notes how those “on whom nothing is lost” may take even the simplest of moments and develop them into…

understand or care to understand the answers. He also states ironically during his apology that by the belief you know enough to not question further shows more ignorance than his knowledge that he does not…

single day and have led me to where I am today and will lead me to pursuing my future career goals as a CRNA. As I reflect on my experiences as a…