Heart-to-Heart: Experience Isn’t About Time—It’s About the Problems You’ve Solved

Raymond Adeniyi

May 30 (edited) • General discussion

Hey Papfam, let’s talk real.

Let’s strip away the noise.

Some people think Experience means being in tech for 5 or 10 years.

But if you only touched code three times in all that time ?
if you ghost your keyboard every few months ?
if you spend more time around code than actually writing, breaking, fixing, and building it...

Then you don’t have 10 years of experience ?

You have one month of experience, repeated 120 times.

So what is experience?

It’s not your job title.
It’s not how long you’ve been in the space.
It’s not how many conferences you’ve attended.

It’s this simple:

> Experience is the number of REAL PROBLEMS you’ve solved. Period.

You:

"I’ve been learning for years, but I still feel like I’m not growing..."

Me:

Because you’re not solving enough problems.

You're watching. Reading. Planning.

But the part that makes you REALLY sharp — the part that makes you confident — is in the doing.

In the pain.

In the bugs.

In the weird error message that forces you to dig deeper.

No wonder in one of the React Entrepreneur podcast when

@Sonny Sangha

and

@Jay Rathod

give the why behind the 5 DAYS CHALLENGES event normally done in this great community they discover people love to consume information but never do anything with that information or implement it. So the challenge forces you to not only do it but have a wins to keep the drive and fire burning.

for the timestamp don't worry i will drop it once i remember the particular episode here

ohhhh it episode 11 of the React Entrepreneur podcast

timestamp [64:30]

and episode 8 nailed it timestamp [9:45] you can listen from here [8:23] when the university of code was launch and the purpose for it?

Let’s get honest.

You don’t become a great developer by coasting through time.

You become great by showing up consistently, facing real challenges, and refusing to skip the hard stuff.

if you think this is not the truth Christiano Ronaldo who is one of the greatest footballer in this sand of time was ask question of his greatness he emphasis consistency, believe, dedication as is secret if secret exist

You don’t level up by staying around the fire—you have to get burned a few times.

That’s where the real growth happens.

So how do you build true experience?