Good judgement comes from experience, often, experience comes from bad judgement.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Experience is recognising our mistakes once we have made them.
See the trend in the notable quotables? You gain experience by doing. You gain knowledge by reading.
I can read about a complicated surgical procedure, but that does not mean I have any experience doing it.
I can read about exploring the Marianas trench in a submarine, but that does not mean I have experience doing it.
Likewise you can read about how to sex a snake. You can read about how to administer injections to an animal. You can read about how to remove a stuck eyecap.
But that does not mean you have experience doing it.
Experience is not parroting or regurgitating what someone else knows or sharing what you have read. When you do that, all you are doing is sharing someone else's experience.
When someone asks a specific question about snake care, an experienced keeper relates what has worked for him/her successfully. An inexperienced keeper cribs the information from a care sheet or from what an experienced keeper has shared.
Can't make it any simpler than that. You've either done it, or you haven't. Being the first one to Google the correct answer or being the first one to offer up someone else's experiences is not a substitute for actual hands on expertise.
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