I experience therefore I am

Most job application criteria require experience apart from formal qualifications. I have wondered why this is necessary especially when someone is applying for the job for the first time? Unless a person has a job, it is impossible to get the necessary experience.  
Philosopher Aristotle compared the mind of an infant to a blank clay tablet, "tabula rasa" on which experiences leave their mark. This could be applied to adults as well because experience is the best teacher in life. Growing up is a journey that we have to undertake every day of our lives and this journey will bring ample opportunities to experience the specific way of life. As we journey this life, our life is a blank clay tablet that has to be written as we experience situations and instances in life. It is important for any one of us to go through this journey as it unfolds. There are bad and good experiences as the consequence of learning, however, the goal of this journey of experience must be a good experience. The majority of people experience good things in life and this is crucial for our growth and for our happiness. 
The experience leads to knowledge and knowledge and not vice versa. Knowledge from the experience helps us to perform and conduct ourselves well. For instance, unless one has experience of heat, one will fail to recognize the fire. Experience teaches us lessons in life; lessons to cope with life and persevere in endeavors. Our mind craves to have positive experiences and rightly so we will have ample opportunities to fulfill this craving. Despite the negative experiences we can choose to embrace only positive experiences because it is in positive experiences we find our happiness. 3
We could experience pain in the form of feelings in the mind. This painful experience will make us resilient towards the specific situation and help us to cope with it. On the other hand, joyful experiences will propel us to strive to stay in that experience and also help us to constantly seek positive experiences in life. This is important for our existence and a form of the coping mechanism of life without which we will find ourselves delusional or psychotic. Experience conditions our behavior in life. For instance, a criminal commits a crime due to his past experiences of life and most criminals have a negative experience in their early life. 
We experience there we exist and if not for the experience we would be fish out of water. This is one of the important reasons why employers look for experience from the candidates of job. Basically, employers are seeking the knowledge they gained from the experience at the job. It is crucial that we gain as much experience as possible in our everyday lives. Let us strive to experience so that we can cope with life and learn traits of life. 

Crow raises the bar

It was fascinating to read in the New York Times on 19 August about crows are being trained to clean up the park in France. The crows are trained to pick up cigarette buds from the park and dash it in the bin. The trainer has six crows which are brought in a box to the park and sent to clean up the park and as a reward, they are given a piece of cheese. This might look like animal abuse or work but crows like to play. The trainer opined that it is a play for the crows and in fact they enjoy doing it. He also says that it is to make people guilty that they should clean the park, not the crows. 

While this fascinated me, I wondered how animals can be taught to do something good like this and they do it faithfully. Of course, crows are considered to be intelligent birds. Do you think they are more intelligent than humans? Then why humans don't clean up but mess up the park? Humans also need to be taught even though humans are intelligent beings. What is taught to humans is important but soon taken for granted or can be influenced by other factors such as this, not our park or I didn't dirty the park and so on?

Animals also have a degree of belonging to nature hence they can feel with nature. If they feel nature is not suitable or habitable they migrate to a better habitable place in nature. They are close to nature than humans. It is important that humans take some cues from animals so that our nature is protected and kept clean. In fact, humans need nature more than animals because most animals can migrate from one place to the other without much difficulty. But humans cannot migrate so easily for there are more constraints of migrating.