Yesterday, Sandeep and I had a long discussion on "what is experience". Here is what we came up with.
We start our career with equal potential. Experience is how we mobilize our potential. It is how we convert our potential (the energy we posses by virtue of being human, engineer etc) to action (how we mobilize the potential to get results) decides the depth of our experience. The conversion factor differs and so is over experience/learning. Experience obeys law of conservation of energy. The energy neither be created nor destroyed but transformed from one form to another form.
In general, potential diminishes as experience grows and kinetic increases with experience (for most of us). We become more action oriented with experience.
We came up with the following diagram during our chat.
