Seth Godin - why should not always rely on the experience
A Life / / December 19, 2019
The logic of most of us is this: "It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times." But we can not always rely only on their own experience and reject what we do not see or feel.
Seth Godin
Entrepreneur, ex-vice-president of marketing at Yahoo!, the author of popular books "The Purple Cow" and "The Pit".
We used to believe just that and understand only what we can experience yourself. That is why it is not disputed Newton's laws, but a lot of panic and wonder when it comes to dark matter, Heisenberg or quarks.
Often, we easily accept what is in front of us. But what is far or very, very close, we can not accept. Hard for us to deal with something too big or too small, with the numbers with many zeros or decimal characters. And we are unlikely to present a very distant future.
Virtually none of the achievements of our civilization is not only the result of practical experience. We trust the stories of spies, technicians and journalists. We rely on their opinion about what we need to wait. We want to get the views and experience of the rest of the world and apply them to our specific situation.
The problem is that by choosing which data to believe we often endanger themselves and others. Personal stories and placebo reasoning, vaccines and the weather outside the window - this is a very interesting topic for discussion. But such unconfirmed information can hurt.
78.45% of us hate the statistics, because we do not have the practical experience of interaction with something big and unknown. Instead, it is much easier to invent something, based on personal practical experience.
Solar eclipse occurred regardless of whether you believe in it or not. It does not matter whether you have seen it before in person.
Practical experience is needed in certain areas of life. For example, in the fact that we feel towards other people how to perceive music, literature or works of art. If we apply the practical experience only where it is really important we get the opportunity to become the best version of yourself.
Sometimes you need to look beyond their own experience and see things from a different angle.