Topic: The best teacher... experiencing experience experiences

[thelowmax]

I have often been told (and then in turn said it myself) that experience is the best teacher. But who's experience? I find in some situations there is no way to learn something but to do it, while other times I appreciate the experience of other's to educate me (as well as avoid digit severing mishaps).

Sometimes I find that the only way to really figure something out is to mess it up a few times (like my relationships ).

Any thoughts? How about sharing your experience with experience or lack of it?

[tramp]

gotta get your hands dirty to learn

[MoMo]

Some people only learn by experience, my son will listen to my advice but then go out and do it his way not mine and then come back and say I was right. Go figure.  Larry

[medic09]

Trite but true:

Good judgement comes from experience.

Experience comes from bad judgement.

Just gotta do it.
 

[myhondas]

They say you start with a full bag of luck in one hand and a empty bag of experience in the other. Trick is to fill the empty bag with experience before running out of luck in the other bag.    In aviation, when you make a mistake and you survive, it goes into the experience column. If you don't survive, it goes into the statistics column.