03/18/2025
HARD LESSON INCOMING:
I may be young, but the experiences I have had taught me a lot throughout the years. One of lessons I have learned is:
“It’s not how long you’ve done something, it’s what you’ve done in that time.”
Time is fickle. You can put two people together from the same industry , having the same amount of years in experience, yet one is far ahead of the other in how well they perform. One put in the strenuous long hours and days with no vacation and pushed and scratched their way to be at the top in record time, while the other just plugged along more as a hobby or something to do and only put in the amount of work required.
Which do you think has more experience or is better at what they do?
The point of this example is to show how experience and being an expert actually works.
Age is just a number and doesn’t matter. Years of experience is just a number and doesn’t matter. The real question we should be asking is how many hours have you put in?
This is a common mistake in the horse industry. Everyone asks how long you’ve done it and base your “experience “ on how many years. Once again , that number doesn’t matter. I have met many who have been riding, showing or training for 20 plus years, but than I see someone who has been riding, training, and or showing for 10 years who has better equitation, feel and results. What’s the difference?
The difference is the person riding for 20 years only rode, trained, and showed 10-20 horses, while the other put in 2 sets of 10,000 hrs and rode,l and trained 1,200 horses.
The takeaway of this is look at results and experienced based on a different lense. How many hours have they put into their education, rather than how long have they done it for? You’ll find better results that way!!!
