That’s the biggest problem with people looking to start at any rung of the ladder beside the bottom. It’s a universal problem that prevents us from doing the work we know we can do well.
Why is it then, that although you know you can do something, you’re still not allowed to do it? Because you don’t have the experience. And why is that?
Because experience doesn’t mean that you know how to do something or even do it well.
I think it’s a fair moment to share a quote from Oscar Wilde,
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes“
It’s actually easy to start half way up the ladder and even sometimes closer to the top. The only way to be granted that spot, though, is through humility, through sharing all the mistakes you have made and what you learned from them.
I could write for the New York Times, easily. They have editors, I don’t have to worry too much about the details, just write as best I can. Why don’t they hire me then? Because I don’t have enough “experience.” I haven’t made enough mistakes, don’t have enough stories, I wouldn’t be a good enough teacher because I have yet to learn everything (the hard way).
It’s the mistakes that make the experience and the experience that delivers you to your dream job.
I guess that means there’s only one thing for you to do if you want what you want. You have to do the hard stuff, the humiliating stuff, the emotional labor. You have to make more mistakes.
Stay Positive & No, It May Not Be The Only Way, But It Is The Best Way
Garth E. Beyer
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