“Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.”
Source: No Place to Run
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Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Prosperity, p. 21
“The best way to learn something is from experience”
to actually try doing the task or activity. Great learnings can come when you face challenge and difficulty and when you might not succeed.
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“Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.”
Lost Woman Song
Song lyrics
“While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Only the foolish learn from experience - the wise learn from the experience of others.”
Nur der Dumme lernt aus Erfahrung, der Kluge aus der Erfahrung der anderen!
Alan Turing
Introduction, p. 24
Thinking and Destiny (1946)