Experience is something you get just after you needed it.
I've always liked the two buckets approach to flying. You start off with a full bucket of luck and an empty bucket of experience. The trick being to fill the one before the other runs out...
She related the tale of her saving a Bob Marley concert by hotwiring a truck. At the Lunch I approached the Headmistress. She greeted me with "OK, OK, you can teach it!"
Nice one. Reminds me of the many musos who are also pretty hot at science subjects. Two that come immediately to mind are Prof Brian Cox of 'Things Can Only Get Better' fame and Doctor Brian May, astrophysicist who has a day job in a band called Queen apparently. Then there are airline pilots Bruce Dickinson and Steve Morse who have day jobs in Iron Maiden and Deep Purple.