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Do you think Experience is the best Teacher?

 It is said that experience is the best teacher, but to learn consciously through wisdom may even be a better and more convenient way. To learn by experience is to learn from mistakes. It means you have burnt your fingers and now your eyes are open. This is a tough, costly and inconvenient way to learn. Rather than leaving  our learning to experience, why do we not learn consciously through WISDOM?

We can learn by consciously going out of our way to acquire knowledge and wisdom rather than leaving our learning to chance. Surely, we can learn from mistakes but why wait till when we make mistakes before we learn? We should give more premium to learning by wisdom than by experience. This involve one making ones mind to be decisive in learning. We must decide to learn consciously and not necessarily from negative experiences.

The first step is to realize that life is simply the outcome and outplay of decisions. Our life now is the sum total of our decisions and our future  and it will be determined by our decisions of today. If we decide to learn today we are not likely to make mistakes and when we do not make mistakes, experience need not to be our best teacher.

To avoid making experience our best teacher will take more than a decision. We must couple our decisions with a complete and wholehearted devotion. We must be resolved, resolute and resilient in our bid to learn by wisdom and not necessarily by experience. This is crucial because situations and circumstances will want us to make a detour and leave our learning and life to chance. We must therefore be disciplined to remain with our resolve to make clean break with experience as our best teacher.

Discipline in this regard means learning something new everyday by wisdom. It means consciously getting better by the day in your chosen field. Discipline will demand taking advantage of every learning opportunity that comes our way. It will mean we must pay the price for learning by wisdom( invest in books, magazines, seminars ) and other means by which we Can become wiser.

 It is much easier and cheaper to learn consciously by wisdom than to learn expensively by experience. When we learn by experience, the deed is done already and we are just picking up the pieces. Consider the child who graps a burning coal, he has leaned the hardway through the painful experience, but his fingers will remain burnt. In a nutshell Experience is not the best teacher if we really decide to make wisdom the class prefect.   
    Adapted from Tribune.
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