Experience. We learn through experiences. We change how we do things or even adapt our worldview through experiences. We can relate to others when we have similar experiences as they do.
There is only so much that we can learn or use from information. If we don’t make it into an experience, it stays something that we theoretically understand.
We need to add the motions, the coordination of mind and movement, until we actually understand it. Our bodies need to feel it to understand it. If it is a trial or a bigger change.
That’s why I felt drawn to Design Thinking early in my career. It made you not just read about something or ask someone about a specific need or problem. It makes you go into the experience, to feel and observe closely what is really happening.
Currently, I am milking 140 goats for 3 weeks. The one farm work I had not done yet. I have seen it a thousand times, talked with friends hundreds of times about it. But doing it myself?
Stepping into it with all senses. Game-changing. Experiencing.
And it is fulfilling. Making experiences with all senses it makes you feel good. It makes you feel alive.
Sometimes I wonder how many of our experts had this kind of sense-fulness last, the actual experience of what they are experts in?
No one can tell you what to do. What is right for you. Or what “meaningful work” actually is.
It’s your freaking own context.
We need to bring together our values, our qualities of life, and mostly our senses. To step into our own journeys.
We have to experience it ourselves.
I have to experience it myself..
