I got my API982! My API936 I’ve got since 2012, but more than all of this. Myself and the team working with me adds the critical element: Experience.
What does Experience mean? To quote myself – “knowledge of a certain subject matter, through some or the other level of learning thus engagement.” This is perhaps a subjective view but I think it relates well enough. With this approach I can ask; what does knowledge mean, and how do we learn to gain experience?
The so called study of Knowledge (Epistemology) has two basic theories: One group claiming Inherent knowledge, and the other – taught knowledge. Naturally, there is much more to it than the philosophy I’m presenting here but I am leading to a point.
Fact is, there are two ways of gaining knowledge, but how do we learn to actually retain this knowledge? Also understanding that learning is not a matter of retention but instead attention. Trying to grasp the association between knowledge and learning will take more than a quick blog post, perhaps one day when I release my book, you can read Chapter 18, where I delve into this subject. But for now ,lets accept that there are three ways we learn. One is Auditory, the 2nd is through visual aids and the 3rd is Kinetic. In other words – by doing.
I’m blabbing on about this to say that team PBE Projects has the full array at hand. We have the theory part down to a dot. Then there’s the bit where “an old dog was taught a new trick”. The older guys in our team could see how tech evolved and how it impacted inspection, manufacturing, equipment, application, even reporting and testing. But the important bit, the old hands helping, guiding, teaching the next generation of …. well, all of us really. Essentially this is at the core of our values; skills transfer. Because as we all know our trade is in a critical fall downward spiral when to comes to older hands moving on or out of the trade.
I conclude this by saying, I never once mentioned “smart”- that would be to assume the knowledge one has is sufficient without further learning. I purely refer to a humble gratitude for the old hands and their willingness to allow people like me, to learn from their knowledge. Experience then, is about more than what one did, it’s also a matter of what we know and how we work together.
The way I approach this may be considered a Pseudo science subject by some – and surely non-refractory. But be happy that I didn’t start talking about Morphic resonance, where in essence a specific Form, be it human or plant, has that inherent knowledge, as referred to earlier. Then there is Noetics, where we have that connection with things or someone. Not for here or for now…. thanks for reading.
