When you are experienced in a field, it simply means you are not new to doing business in that field.

It shows you have done enough business transaction in that field before.

Take a look at the game of football, when you give players the ball to display, it is then you’ll know how experienced they are.

Experience is not same thing as knowledge. That is the mistake most people make, they get knowledge and they believe it is enough to run a business effectively. They mix up being knowledgeable with being experienced.

Being knowledgeable is good but having experience with that knowledge is great.

If you look at most lecturers that lecture about business and entrepreneurship in schools, you will find out they don’t have their own business or they are not successful at their business.

The issue is they have the knowledge about business but they don’t have the experience.

How do you gain experience?

You can gain experience simply by doing, I don’t mean just doing anything that comes to your mind. You should do the things you have read about.
When you read too much and you don’t take action on things you’ve read, you’ll get no result.

You should read regularly, update your knowledge and practice the things you read, that way you will gain experience.

You can also gain experience by learning from successful people. You should study them, ask questions and take actions based on the knowledge you have gained from them.

Do not learn from someone who is struggling in business because that person will also teach you the same thing and you might also start to struggle in business too.

Instead learn from the masters in your field of business, if you listen to their instructions and follow them you will also become a master too.

Learning from successful people makes you achieve success faster. That is one of the fastest ways to achieving success, learn from the successful ones and use the same strategy they used.

You can also gain experience by taking actions based on your personal thought and inspiration. This might be interesting but can also cause you lots of hurt.

You are prone to making mistakes and it is from that mistake you will learn and gain more experience.

But this is like taking a longer route to success when shorter routes are available.

The easy way to gain experience and be successful in business is to get enough knowledge and begin to take action on knowledge you’ve gotten.

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