Two types of people they say. Which one are you?

Your mistakes aren’t the best teacher—just the most expensive.

You can start at the bottom of the mountain and make every mistake from scratch on the way to the top, or you can take a sherpa with you and master the best of what other people have already figured out.

The successful learn vicariously; the foolish insist on firsthand pain.

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i agree with the first assertion.

i don't do meth, for instance.

but you learn by doing, not living vicariously. If you haven't made any mistakes, then you've not taken risk.

and "learning vicariously" just doesn't make sense