Tag: experience
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Embracing Adversity: Strength Through Experience
Someone once said that the trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson. Oscar Wilde wrote: “Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.” Aldous Huxley wrote: “Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what…
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The Meaning of Wisdom
I don’t think I know what it means to be wise. I think I understand the concept of ‘having wisdom’ even less. What I do know is that we each have our years of experiences. Each of those experiences has made us familiar with something we didn’t always know. This familiarity, with situations as well…