Experience is Proof

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, did it make a sound? 

Similarly (not really, but stay with me here), if you have an experience but don’t tell anyone about it, did it happen?

Throughout our careers, we are learning and realising and changing and growing … and we hardly even notice it.  But when job hunting or looking for that promotion, experience is taken as proof of reality. 

Describing your experience – telling the story of “what happened” – is essential.  Yet we don’t really learn how to do that; not well, anyway.