A question on exploratory testing from Quora

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And my answer:
You can cook pizza by following instructions or trying
it out on your own. When you try it out on your own,
you learn a lot more than merely following
instructions. You don't get pizza a couple of times but
once you get it, you would have exhausted many
mistakes. The next time you have to cook any food,
you will be aware of the kind of mistakes you made
with pizza and would then ask a bunch of questions to
avoid doing those mistakes. You may ask for the
instructions but you won't treat the instructions the
same way you would have treated had you not done
your own mistakes. You have prepared yourselves to
cook any food in this exploratory cooking process.
However, you get a pizza faster when you follow
instructions given to you. The goal is to not produce
one pizza but thousands and if you need to keep
following the instructions every time, the first pizza is
faster but to produce thousands is slower.
Accidentally if the instructions are wrong, you perfect
the imperfect pizza. The next time someone asks you
to cook pasta instead of pizza, you are asking
instructions, follow it and pray God that the instruction
given to you is perfect.
There are competitions like Master Chef and what we
observe is - the participants need to cook food and
there are some standard procedures to follow to cook
the same food. However, some people do it more
awesome than others. Why? Their experience of doing
mistakes with the dish, their skill and passion for
doing it better and their skill to make the right
decisions at the right time helps them win.
Be a master chef. If you want to be one. Be one from
today because nobody becomes somebody all of a
sudden.