It’s worth trying it if you have not yet…
Rusty bikes on your garden? Completely weathered shed?
I found it like magic wand.
I bet you know it as DIY tool already. But, please do a proper hands-on experience. Results will be something beyond expectation in a positive sense.
Only trick is to use it as tooth brush. Fine Zigzag move – you will learn it by your self naturally when you try it.
For my case, I stopped to bring my old bike to the recycling site as it shines again!
Yes. This is Tokyo Engineer Talk!
Hello, Hello, audience. Of course, this is NOT the end of stories today.
This DIY success just reminds me of a talk in Tokyo the other day.
‘Everyone loves learning in deep mind. However, new experience sometimes works less on former established knowledge’
He continued before I say ‘how come…?’
‘You need skim off something old a bit before new challenge’
My best translation – what he said
He is a good mentor as experienced engineer but sometimes less detailed instruction make me wonder…..So I try to digest a bit more.
He is the same guy as appeared in former ‘learning curve’ discussion in this blog.
His point is consistently based on a rule – use initial steep gradient of learning curve. OK, I guess his point from there.
It sounds right that it is NOT simple to learn something new with very fixed mindset kept. We can carry a core rule from former discipline. But..oh, yes. I have something…
I admit I have an example in a prime project.
When I jumped in drone industry, my aerodynamicist knowledge on real helicopter was rather ‘harmful’. Looking back now, I should have notice how dominating a crazy power-weight ratio is in this system. I should have abandon earlier elegance of flight dynamics (or hovering meister myth) to face ‘brutal’ GPS-locked position control.
Yes, fundamental knowledge was (and is) still working. But I should have rolled back my experience stage to a bit earlier state.
Although I still don’t define his point as one single statement, I agree that we need to ‘process’ former experience as a prep for new challenge…
Don’t sell ‘experience’ on its own
He switched subject a bit.
‘I don’t think you can sell your experience on its own’
‘It’s self-contradiction. If you could sell experience, it would not be something valuable you gained over years’
I could argue on it. If you found something first, you could sell it to someone. However, I rather question it by myself, ‘It’s really something we call experience??’
Skim off ‘insignificant’ layer from your experience
Experience is working for everyone. But there is one trick:
‘Take long-survived rules only’
Your knowledge has been accumulated over time. However, some recent knowledge might be just:
Adaptation for short-term problem
Random shake for already-tailed-off progression
Common trend everyone can see (on SNS possibly)
Again, you selling your experience? Customers will be satisfied by it?
And, on the top of them,
Do you have your ‘wire brush’ to make your experience shine?
Author: Sergio T. with special permission by a business partner
P.S. Stay tuned. I am on a negotiation for episode 2 of this article. It will include Five ‘wire brushes’ for everyone’s use. Thanks for some initial feedback to encourage me!