"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced" - John Keats
Experience is the best teacher; it is no gainsay because it teaches you what you can't acquire from a definite school of thought. It covers what you've learnt, unlearn and relearn in virtually all school of thought you come across.
Certificate is an award for excelling in a chosen career path and it mostly depict cerebral power and psychomotor skills. It is not a license that guarantees total requisite needed for the next phase of your life.
Experience comes with what you've learnt consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously. It deals directly with the human universe -- body, mind and soul plus the center of the universe which is the heart. Although when working to earn the certificate, there are levels of emotional stability one must attain to balance the intelligent quotient (IQ). But certificates do not show that, it focuses mainly on how well you've mastered the field and not what surrounds the process during the course of study.
Myopically, a high level of intelligent quotient is required in order to have a good certificate. For experience, it is a blend of emotional quotient (EQ) and intelligent quotient (IQ).
The greatest gift one can give oneself is building your EQ, though having a high IQ is great and will make people move around you by paving way for you in their heart but EQ will put you in people's heart and make their heart yours. You can have a high IQ and still suffer emotional pain and distraught but most likely than not people with high EQ show tendencies of good brain power.
The maxim "Your attitude determines your altitude" was put forward when philosophers researched character ethics. Your attitude is as a result of the level of emotional stability you've attained. Your certificate obtained through utilising IQ will get you a job but the experience you garner utilising the combination of EQ and IQ will keep the job for you. All facet of work environment is filled with people that will provoke you and your EQ allows you to deal with them accordingly without stepping on the cobra's tail and keep your job.
In soccer, players provoke their opponent because they knew that once they retaliated, they receive their marching order from the referee which is to their own advantage. In a broader sense, let's examine this scenario of an interview session conducted on the submission of a business proposal. One of the interviewee knew that other interviewees will table how they would go about the project intelligently. He reasoned that most interviewee would likely showcase a good IQ to want to win it and he has an equally fair chance of being selected based on IQ.
So he tried to outsmart them by showing his EQ. He walked up to the interviewers confidently and shook hands with a big grin. He took the session by storm by commencing with a conversation on the painting on the wall.
He immersed the interviewers in his knowledge of the painting by showing his oratory power. They were caught in the web and was lost in the pool of oration when the time keeper had signalled to end the session. People don't excel in interviews based on submission of certificates, proposals and CVs but from the emotional awareness that surrounds the interview. No interviewer will want to give out jobs to someone with high IQ but lack emotional awareness --shyness, apprehension and so on; these are setbacks to the certificate you earn.
The interviewee won the business proposal because he was emotionally aware of the rules, he bent the rules and tweaked it to his advantage. If he was not experienced in that regard, then his certificate alone couldn't have done it.
Experience is the certificate you need to break and conquer any field.
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