EXPERIENCE OR INSTRUCTION
LEARNING: Experience or Wisdom? Some people magnify experience and say, “Experience is the best teacher.” But that statement is not completely true. Because many who over-magnify experience end up refusing to learn—they wait for life to beat them before they gain wisdom. Listen carefully: Experience is a teacher, but it is not the best teacher—instruction is. Why? Because experience can be painful, costly, and sometimes destructive. Some experiences don’t teach you—they damage you. That’s why wisdom says: You don’t learn how to shoot a gun on the battlefield— you learn it in the training ground before the battle begins. If you wait for experience to teach you everything, you may lose the battle before you understand the lesson. AMPLIFICATION: Experience may teach you what went wrong, but instruction teaches you how to get it right. Experience comes after failure, but wisdom prepares you before failure. Experience is a slow teacher, but knowledge is a fast-track advanta...