How Experience Changes the Way You Think

Early on, every opportunity felt loud.

Emails marked urgent.
Meetings framed as once-in-a-lifetime.
Partnerships dressed up with big names and bigger promises.

Back then, speed felt like wisdom. If something moved fast, it must be important.

Experience slowly rewired that instinct.

Today, when an opportunity appears, I don’t react immediately. I read it. I reread it. I sit with the discomfort if something feels off. And very often, what initially looked exciting begins to lose its shine.

Experience does not eliminate opportunity.
It filters it.

The doodle character walks forward here, eyes open, not rushing, not stopping. Just observing.