Hello hive learner community, how are you feeling today? This topic worths to be thought before responding. There is an adage that says, “experience is the best teacher”. With this adage, I don’t want to pass through some situations in life before learning a lesson from it.
Though there are circumstances that you must pass through in life, and the purpose of passing through those circumstances is to learn from it.
I came to realize that experience is only the best teacher for me if there is a better reflection. There are memories built from centuries that can only be obtained from books or the internet; the experiences from those books cannot be discovered by yourself and you cannot pass through those experiences. The best way to obtain those experiences is by book.
Experience is good but not always the best answer: there are situations in life that you need an expert to help you to get over it when the situation is about to start. My question is that, why don’t you allow yourself to pass through the situation? Why do you call for experts to help you out when the situation is at an early stage?
My answer is that, because you don’t want to experience the situation in your life, you know that the situation is bad for your health. You have seen it by nature, or learned somewhere that the result of the situation is bad; that is the reason you consult the expert to help you.
I also support that experience is good when you reflect on the experience and carry out self-examination; That is the only way experience is the best.
Just like a friend of mine when we were in the higher institution; in 100 level, he had the worst result and never reflected on those results. In 200 level, the result he had was worse than 100 level, yet he did not reflect on it. In the 300 level, he had results that were worse than 200 level, yet he never imagines reflecting on the failure. In the final year, he had the worst result and could not graduate with us. He spent another 2 years in the school before he graduated.
As he experienced failure from 100 level to 400 level, would you say his experience is the best teacher?
The answer is capital ‘no’. This is because he did not reflect in his failure and the failure kept on occurring every year till, he graduated.
Therefore, the experience without a reflection may not be an experience but a worse nightmare.
I strongly believe that experiences learning from books are very paramount because we (human beings) cannot experience everything in life. There are certain things we experience through what we have seen or learned from books, the internet and other ways.
I also understand that we must experience certain things in life such as puberty and maturation; those are very important to pass through as we develop from one stage to another.
Some people believe that experiencing things by ourselves is better than reading it from books and other sources; they believe that when we are passing through those moment of pain and enjoyment, it makes us to think about the circumstances we are passing through and we felt those experiences ourselves, we know how it is in our body.
Yeah! It is good to pass through things in life; but I don’t want to pass through some experiences in life, I want to learn them so that I can have better understanding to prevent it of happening to me.
I don’t want to pass through bad situations: I want to learn it from people that have experienced it, learn how they prevent and curb the situations; and the moment I see the signs of those bad experiences, I used the methods they proffer to prevent myself from experiencing it.
There are situations you never pray to happen to you, and if you have learned something about the situations, you will find all the possible means to curb it.
If a business man knew that the money, he borrowed from a bank would made him to bankrupt and committed suicide, he would never borrow the money.
It happens in my region, he was a very wealthy man, well known and had a company with many branches. The man was thinking of taken his business to new level, he went to borrow more money from company to establish his business in many states. He ended up being scammed by scammers, and everything started going doing.
Since he lost all the money he borrowed, he began to find an alternative to pay the money he borrowed. After a few months, most of the branches of his company were closed, some of his properties were sold in the process.
After he sold all his properties, he could not meet up and the bank came and ceased his company because the company was the collateral when he borrowed the money.
That was how he locked himself up in the middle of the night and hung himself.
If he knew he would pass through such a terrible experience, he wouldn’t have dear to borrow the money from bank.
Your own bad experience might not be the one I painted above; but if you know you will end up in a mess you are passing through right now, you will have found a way to avert the ugly experience.
Many people are passing through a bad experienced they should have learned from books. The books could have given them a glimpse of what to do to avert such a situation in their lives; the bad experiences have thwarted their vision and mission. Therefore, their vision could not be accomplished.
This is the reason I believe that learning from books is very crucial and germane to whatever experiences you want to learn. If it is a negative experience, the books will guide you to avert it; and if it is a positive experience the book will guide you to make it become reality in your life.
In addition, I like to prepare for something (experience) before happening to me; and one of the sources of my preparation is books. There are books I call them by names such as my mentor, my guidance and my instructor. This is because of what I have learned from those books and How I used them to prevented, saved, guided and directed me in positive ways.
I stand up for success, and success is not achieved by merely making mouth, No room for laziness, no room for idleness. Success comes to the people who are desperately and consciously searching for it. When it seems unsuccessful or you smell failure around you, never discourage yourself to be successful.
“Discouragement and failure are the two surest stepping stones to success.” - Dale
Thank you for reading my post.
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