::People learn from experience. =D haha. most people anyway.. I know some people rather shy away from them. *wink*
There is something vital to learning that only personal experience can provide. This is backed up by literature ok? I read this from.. a certain article. haha. A professor perhaps. =p He talked about learning. You know how parents like to point out the 'right' path to their children all the time? Then start nagging about how they are giving their children all the shortcuts yet their children are not taking advantage of them or not even appreciating them. Looking at it from the child's point of view, by being shown a 'shortcut' he has not learned anything at all. Without going the long way, he does not even realize that this path is a shortcut. He does not understand, he does not learn.
Sometimes there is really no shortcut to success, only hardwork and persistence. Endless courage also helps. If one is afraid to step out into the wilderness, try the unknown, one will not gain the variety of experience needed for one to mature into a complete person. It is only through personal experience, and indulging and fully absorbing that experience, can one truly assimilate the benefits of the experience into oneself. Without a personal complete immersion into the subject, one will not have a complete understanding of the subject. Hence when one learns from another's experience, reading from historical records for example, one is looking at a distorted presentation. One distorted by human limitations, distorted by the historian/other person regardless intentionally or unintentionally. Any belief derived from it is thus dangerously askewed and unlikely to be true. Is that not why we only derive conclusions from a variety of sources? first hand as well as secondary sources?
Seek out the truth, rationalize your stand. Observing events from afar, or literally ge an guan huo (no link de chinese proverd..lol), and then deriving a stand from those observations is like..watching a vegetarian refusing to eat meat and then deeming meat to be something sick and disgusting.
haha. bleahx.
Bringing it back to myself, although I have many basic virtues I stick to, I am most unclear on certain values where relationships are concerned. haha. like zhong se qing you. I just realized from a recent experience how true it was and how immature I still was about certain things. I guess we are growing all the time. Changing all the time.
Don't play play.
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.:firestarter blogged on 11:19 PM:.
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