Field Notes

What a Wheelchair Ramp Taught Me About Experience

Recently, I posted an article on LinkedIn, What an Assassin Taught Me About Experience. In the comments, Nicola added that…

6 days ago

What a Glassblower taught me about Experience

It takes years to become a master. But is the amount of time the crucial element? As US artist Rick…

2 weeks ago

What an Educator Taught Me About Experience

Most people assume education is the transfer of knowledge. But in my On Experience conversation with educator and facilitator Linda…

3 weeks ago

What AFL Football taught me about Experience

When I was studying in the US, after my friends went to bed on Friday nights, I would head to…

4 weeks ago

What Alone Australia taught me about Experience

Ten people arrive in Arctic Finland. Before the first episode even begins, I started trying to predict who will win. I…

1 month ago

What Travel Taught Me About Experience

Several decades ago I was on a bus trip winding through the Black Hills of South Dakota on the way…

1 month ago

What Mick Jagger Taught Me About Experience

I was listening to David Marchese interview Mick Jagger for The New York Times Interview when one word stopped me:…

2 months ago

What an Assassin taught me about Experience

In The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne has no idea who he is. He has amnesia, which means he doesn’t remember his…

2 months ago

What a Doctor taught me about Experience

Most people think experience gives us answers, but what happens when our experience fails to answer our questions? When it…

2 months ago

What My Parents taught me about Experience

During the last few years of Dad’s dementia, when Mum and I would visit him in the Aged Care centre,…

2 months ago