Think Like a Rookie

There are some moments when you expect to find a highly experienced professional, such as with the pilot when you are in an airplane, the surgeon when you are in the operating room, and so on. However, and even on those cases, experience is not always a good thing. In fact sometimes experience can be a curse. Such as when your experience in business causes you to focus on the wrong things.

There is a simple antidote to the curse of experience and it is to think like a rookie.

Rookies don’t have experience. They don’t know about the way things were. Rookies create their good old days right now. Rookies put their head down, work hard, stay positive, live fearlessly and are naïve enough to be successful.

Rookies aren’t tainted by rejection, negative assumptions or past experiences. Rookies don’t focus on what everyone says is impossible. Instead, with wide eyes they believe anything is possible. They bring an idealism, optimism and passion to their work and because they believe in the future they take the necessary actions to create it.

So, regardless of how much experience you have in your industry and profession, I want to encourage you to let your experience be a blessing not a curse. Let your experience provide you with expertise and let your rookie mindset fuel you with optimism and passion.

Mentor the rookies because, for all their effort and energy they do make mistakes. And yet, let them teach you how to see the world through their eyes.

Summing-up: Think like a rookie, forget the past, and create your good old days right now.

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