Experience Is The Best Teacher
"Experience is the best teacher and the worst experiences teaches the best lessons"- Jordan Peterson.
Once beaten, twice shy is one of the most popular quotes in every day life. It is no new thing to people that the previous experience you have on something would direct you on what you will do whenever you're in such a situation again.
Experience according to my own terms may be defined as the previous knowledge or skill that a person has gathered on a particular fact, situation or field of study.
In order to gain experiences about certain things in life, then a person must have a prior knowledge of such a thing.
When there is a vacant position in companies and organizations, it is always boldly stated that they need a person with an experience in such a position, not just any level of experience but an experience of working for many years.
It would always be very difficult for a person with zero experience to be appointed into such a post. This goes a long way in explaining why experiences is needed in everything. In order to gain experiences, one must pass through one training or the other.
" Information is not knowledge, the only source of knowledge is an experience" - Albert Einstein..
The Actual Meaning
Historically, this phrase is believed to have originated from Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor who lived from 100BC to 44BC....
Tasting failures is actually very pivotal to gaining experiences, because obviously a lot of people don't learn from success but rather from their failures. This makes learning an important factor in gaining experiences.
Experience isn't something one can just gain overnight and claim "Yeah, I have experience now" . Totally not!. Experience requires a lot of effort and dedication. It takes a lot of time to gather experiences but once gained can never be lost. Automatically, it becomes part and parcel of you and it resides in you.
A person's first encounter in a new thing is actually the beginning of the person's experiences. To be totally experienced, you must always be willing to learn new things everyday. In order to learn, then you have to be submissive, because you can't learn by being proud. Learning is a continuous process, nobody is an highland of knowledge.
We also must be willing to pay the price to learn cos even a student goes to school and pays the tuition fees. Lessons normally do tend to impart one with experiences, experiences that keeps ones foot on the pedal and moving.
When a person defrauds you for the first time using a particular trick, then I do not think you will allow yourself be defrauded for the second time. By not falling victim twice, then you have learnt a lesson, and the teacher who taught you is the initial experience you had.
Conclusion
The best teacher of anything is an experience, mind you it is also the hardest and toughest teacher. It gives you the tests first and afterwards gives you the lessons.
To become an experienced person, then you have to follow these guidelines:
Make sure to learn new things everyday.
Be dedicated
Never have the mindset of "I Know it all", always be humble.
Be an open minded person, always learn from others.
Do not get scared if failure, embrace it.
Strive to be the best, remember you cannot be perfect.
Spend a lot of time mastering the basics of your field of interests.
Always share your experiences with people.
Give Respect, Get Respect
Lend helping hands to people.
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TOPIC: EXPERIENCES
WRITER:MICHAELBCH
DATE: MARCH 11TH, 2022
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You are right my friend, experience requires many experiences to gain, but let me tell you that the brave learn from his experiences, but the intelligent are the ones who learn from the experiences of others