Exploratory Testing - The Best Place to Do It

For his entire engineering career, exploratory testing has been part of delivering i there has been a growing reliance on automated tests. There will always be a place for manual tests and the best place i know of is with exploratory testing. I didn't understand the ins and outs of the inner pace, and i got lost and didn't know how to get back on track. Ill i crashed and burned. But it was embarrassing. This was my box. Why didn't i know how to use it?  I didn't really use it that much from the outside. And i wanted to go out and demo the the box and the new features to customers. That was mostly a marketing thing