“I Know Better because I’m More Experienced...”

in #mindset6 years ago (edited)

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Have you ever wondered about the notion that people having more experience know better? Doesn’t this statement sound vague to you? Because to me, it does.

If you have ever argued with an old man about something, you probably already know what I’m talking about. He won’t hesitate to falsely reject any of your arguments with statements like “I’ve spent a lifetime in this world” or maybe “My experience in this world is more than your age”. These statements suggest that just because they’ve spent more time on this planet than you have, they are somehow always right.

In reality, there are a lot of things wrong with this notion. Experience is something much more complex than we perceive it to be. Every person experiences the world subjectively. So by definition, the subjective experience of one individual cannot in most cases be used as a standard for the subjective experience of another. No two people have ever gone through the same experience nor will they ever do. Even when we perceive the experiences of two individuals to be the same, in reality they are not. The situation might be somewhat similar but the events leading to the situation are different, the consequences and the events following the situation are different. Most importantly, the way the individual is perceiving the situation is different. In short, there are way more differences in experience than there are similarities. However, human beings appear to focus only on the similarities in this regard ignoring all the more significant differences.

With this being said, it will in no way be acceptable to make judgments about a situation of one individual based on the experience of another completely separate individual. Thus, an individual might have more generalized experience in this world but it doesn’t guarantee that he knows better about a particular situation. For ease of understanding, I’d refer to this type of experience as Indefinite Experience. In other words, an individual having indefinite experience of the world cannot in most cases help in solving definite problems.

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On the other hand, it is still possible for an individual to be experienced and know better as a result of that experience. Here I am not talking about general indefinite experience but a more specific Definite Experience. For instance, I being a 22 year old might be less experienced indefinitely than many other individuals who are older than me (or have more indefinite experience). At the same time, I might very well be more experienced definitely (e.g. at writing blogs) than many older individuals.

The problem with this notion that I’m trying to precisely point out is that it seems to mix the definite and indefinite experience when they are two separate things. Although they can sometimes be semi-dependent on each other, it’s still a rare case.

Thus this distinction between definite and indefinite experience is necessary if we are to visualize the truth – not the absolute truth but simply a truer version of this notion because absolute truth can only be measured on an objective level and no human or his opinions are ever objective (certainly not mine).

This simple idea of differences in experiences has a significant practical value in a sense that no single individual can solve a problem as effectively as a group of individuals regardless of how indefinitely experienced that single individual is. When it comes to definite experience, however, it’s obviously another story. I was only concerned about the more general indefinite life experience that many people seem to use as a medal of honor even when they don’t have any intellectual property that deserves that medal.

After all, there are 7 billion kinds of indefinite experiences for 7 billion people. This makes it an illogical thing to look at the experiences of individuals with different pasts and futures while putting the experience of a single individual as a background. As long as we continue to do so, not only will we be unable to solve our problems effectively, but we will also fall into the pit of making wrong decisions again and again – and in the end, believing this notion to be truth may prove to be Lex Luther to our Superman of a life.

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Hey @translogicalguy
I found your post through the @heyhaveyamet initiative.
I've been going through your posts, and I think it would be an awful loss for SteemIt if you leave because you don't have enough resource credits to post regularly.

I delegated 35SP to your account, so you have a little more freedom to post and comment without running out of Resource credits.

I'll be publishing a post later today or tomorrow in which I'll explain it all and give you some tips on how to grow your account. I'll be tagging you in it, so keep an eye out (you can get notifications of mentions through the Partiko app or via Ginabot)

@simplymike you have no idea how much this means to me 😭I’ve been waiting for days to even reply to comments on my post. Thank you so much for appreciating my stuff and donating me some power. I hope my future posts won’t disappoint you either. Lots of love.

Please don't worry about disappointing me. I'm not disappointed that easily, lol. I just want you to have a chance to discover what an amazing community this is. And for that you need to be able to become a part of it. So just enjoy, have fun, and engage with all the amazing people here. And if you don't like it here, then you can just leave. The Steem Power won't be lost, it will return to my account. You owe me nothing. I'm just glad I can play my small part in the big play called SteemIt ;0)

( I'm not going to manage to get the post with some extra tips out today, since it's already midnight here - but it'll be the first thing on my list tomorrow)

It’s so good to see such amazing people here. Cheers.

You are awesome lady!!! I've been having fun on this blog as well and forgot to check the RC'S!!! LOLOLOL

(HOW did I forget that??? )

Thank you for looking out for the newbies!!! Wish there were more of us but sure glad that there is a nice coalition!!!

♥️

For this round of delegations, I was originally looking for 5 people. It took me while, but I had finally found them. But then I looked at my SP and it felt so selfish to not share more, so I started looking for a couple more. I started going through the @heyhaveyamet posts, which was amazingly helpful, but also sad to see how many people had left after only making one post. Fortunately, there were some people who were stubborn enough to stay around :0)

This entire RC system is so unfair. How can one become a part of the community if he can't engage? Right after HF20, I still believed they would have a fix for it soon. Meanwhile, I have realized they are so not in touch with how it is like 'down here', that they don't even get that they are killing the entire community. Without an instream of new people, there is no future...

It shouldn't be up to us to fix things like this. Maybe the new 'managing director' will get that, but I'm not putting my hopes up.

So I'm glad there are indeed a couple of people who try to help out where they can, and haven't forgotten they were a newcomer once too. And I thought surviving those first couple of weeks was hard when I first started. But it has become almost impossible since HF20. I can't even imagine what it is like to have to wait 2 days to be able to reply to a comment...

I agree with so much of what you said...and yes.. that's usually what happens.

People come for one visit and then leave.

It's sad... It gives the newbies a false sense of hope.

We are still accepting 1-2 members each week in Welcomewagon, but that's so limited. Unfortunately...our training is so hands on and time consuming... That's ALL we can take each week.

Im so glad that there are lots of communities who are willing to help.

And you're right... It's shouldn't be only up to us to fix this...

There are so many people leaving before they can even get started. It's unfortunate. And.... Bad for the platform ultimately.

I heard there was an 80% drop in spam because of HF 20

But... I wonder how much onboarding has suffered also.

Was it worth it? Don't know

It's true that the amount of spam has dropped, but the userbase at the lower levels has suffered immensely.
I should take a look at @pinguinpablo's stats and see what I can find out.

The lack of transparency from STINC is very annoying...

I'm planning to write a post for the people I just delegated too, to give them some tips on the best ways to (survive) grow their account.

I've heard about Welcome Wagon before, of course, and I just saw a banner at the bottom of a post - don't remember which one - which made me want to go out and inform myself a little more. But since you only take in 1 or 2 members a week, it might not be such a good idea to mention it in the post.

I'm still interested in the initiative, though, and I'm ashamed that I don't know more about it than the fact that it exists. I remember seeing the first post, and I wanted to volunteer as a steempeer, but I'm not very good at making commitments, so I didn't.
Everything else that you're doing is still a big mystery to me. I looked through the posts on the blog, assuming you would have a Discord channel or something like that, but I couldn't find a mention of that anywhere (of course, I didn't go through ALL the posts, so I might have just missed it.)

I'll send you a link with the best description of what we do :)

Funny that you just said you thought about volunteering as a Steem peer... because I thought yesterday "she would make a great Steem peer!!!"

Hahahahaha

We do have a discord but it's only for members. We only choose 1-2 newbies per week because we simply have tried more but the level of commitment that we give to each person is reduced drastically when we are stretched too thin and we would rather quality over quantity. What we are doing was working really well before HF20. Our retention rate was about 75% compared to Steemit's 9%

But since HF20 that's probably dropped to about 50% for us. I think it's due to the lack of connection that people feel across the platform. The comments used to be lively and fun, and now people are hesitant to waste their RCs.

Anyway! Like I said .. welcome wagon is great at what we do... But there are other initiatives that serve more and are great at what they do too. But we just have different methods of helping new members. It all works together :)

I'll find the link for WW and send it later. I'm on my phone now hahaha

If I forget, just remind me in a comment 😊

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Generalizations tend to be harmful in some ways but beneficial in others.

All old men are not wise.

However, many older people do bring a balanced sense of the world that younger people usually haven't had the time to form yet.

Always? No.

Often? From what I've seen, yes.

But we would be foolish to equate age with wisdom on a grand scale (as foolish as equating youth with immaturity on a grand scale)

Because there are often many exceptions to the rules.

Happy that @simplymike dropped by to delegate some RC's to you! (She's awesome!) It had completely slipped my mind to look at your account because my mind has been divided into some major projects lately! Hehe

Hope that delegation helps and if you need more, I'd be happy to help also! (Depends on how often you'd like to write and comment...let me know!)

Thanks again @simplymike! 🤗

Yes that’s exactly my point. Old men do have a much better generalized sense of the world but there are things where there experience is irrelevant.

And hey! Thanks for so much appreciation and help for new comers. I can only thank you bt creating better content and that’s what I’m aiming at. Kudos for all the help mate.

That's what people like @heyhaveyamet @simplymike @helpie @steemterminal and @welcomewagon do. (that last one is my baby lol)

We look for quality new members on the platform and look for ways to help them. You said the best thing you possibly could. The way that we ask our members to "pay us back" is by making the platform better.

When you grow, we grow.

It's fun getting to know you through your writing. I'm always impressed with people who come to the platform when it's at a low point. I'm curious. What brought you to this platform?

What brought me to this platform? Well this platform has everything that reinforces me to keep writing; readers, rewards and appreciation. I tried WordPress but my posts were going unread unless I sent the link to my close friends lol. And there was no reward whatsoever. Here at Steemit, I can get all three things with the same effort as I was putting into making my WordPress blog. Most importantly, WordPress and Facebook never connected me to such amazing human beings like yourself 😛

Great reasons!

Same reason why I came too. But back in 2016 haha

I left for a bit when work became 15 hour days ... Lol but came back after I left that job

I wrote a story exclusively for Steemit and had a blast interacting with all my readers on here. Such a different experience than just writing and releasing.

If you find a community here that you really enjoy, its unlike anything else I've found online. Pretty extraordinary, and the possibilities of cryptocurrency... Exciting!

It's too bad that more people aren't willing to step outside of their comfort zone (of what the media says is acceptable lol) and try Steemit..but... Maybe in time..

I have a project on here that is launching on Feb 1 (in it's beta stage) where we are hoping to start attracting families to Steem.

Hopefully it will be a great success!

Anyway.. not sure if I actually ever got around to saying welcome... But.. welcome!

Thanks @dreemsteem ♥️ And I hope your project becomes a big success. The more quality contributors we attract, the more we will enjoy being a part of this platform.

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Thanks! And agree 100%

I think we will keep attracting quality contributors, we just need to KEEP them here! Lol

Speaking of which, don't feel obligated in the least.... But we bring 1-2 newbies into Welcome Wagon each week. I've been shadowing your account (obviously lol) seeing if you'd be a good fit.

I think you would, but not sure if you're interested?

It's 7 days of training that happens in a group DM on discord. You'll have 3 mentors assigned to you (I'll be one of them) and we talk, train, laugh throughout the week. You'll have access to our private discord and you can stay or we can help you find another community where you can grow also! No obligation...it's free. We are here for you whenever you need.

Think about it... If you'd like to join, let me know. If not, no worries- I'll probably still be checking out your blog 😉

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