Experimenting is an important thing nowadays. It’s almost like wisdom. A way to properly approach the world around us.

Experimenting saves time.

If we’re ready to experiment, to conduct experiments, it’s no longer necessary to have all the answers before starting. Conducting experiments frees us from the tyranny of perfection. If we experiment, if we try, there’s no need to have answers in advance. No more endless debates, no more time spent convincing everyone that it’s the right solution, no more time wondering about everything that could happen. We save precious time. The condition is that the experiment is short, time-bound. Two months? Two weeks? Two days?

Experimenting allows us to feel authorized.

If we experiment, error is permitted. Everyone feels much better. An experiment can succeed or fail, it’s explicit. Through experiments we free ourselves from many constraints. With experiments we do things we wouldn’t have done in another framework.

Experimenting provides better answers.

By experimenting, we postpone our answers to a much better moment. The answers come after the experiment. At that moment when, thanks to the experiment, we’ll know much more about reality since we’ll have tried. We’ll have far fewer hypotheses, much more concrete results—those from the experiment.

Experimenting allows growth. This verb induces observation, analysis.

An experiment is an experience that calls for observation. It’s as explicit as the right to fail that accompanies it. Did we succeed? Did we fail? This question necessarily requires taking a step back, reflecting on what success or failure would be. When we do something. We do it or not. The result is having done it or not. When we experiment, we question the impact of what we’ve done.

Experimenting facilitates appropriation and change management.

The experiment is short, time-bound. It calls for an analysis of the result. It implies that failure is possible. And thus going back. It has nothing definitive about it. So we truly try, without brakes, without ulterior motives, because we know that going back is possible. That nothing is imposed, that the trial is temporary. It is therefore fundamental that your experiments be true experiments, that they’re intended to become permanent only if the results are good. Under this condition, the appropriation of your experiments and their chances of success will be much better.

To experiment with experimentation, you just need to stop doing and start trying.