‘Experience is a very good school, but the fees are too high’
- Jim Beardsmore
I think that this saying has within it volumes of wisdom. It is very sophisticated indeed, even though it is apparently so simple.
The whole success of the human race versus other creatures on earth is related to our ability to learn from the knowledge and experiences of others. Learning just from your own experience can be like accepting data as valid although it has come from a statistical sample of one.
A related saying is my own; ‘Do not allow yourself to learn too much from your own experiences, they may be giving you very misleading information’, this is the reciprocal of the same idea.
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