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Old 11-10-2012, 09:05 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I want desperately for everyone to actually learn from their errors - to a greater extent I wish everyone (myself included) would become more imaginative & more able to imagine possible negative outcomes before an error even occurs. By imagining bad outcomes, we can avoid them and direct ourselves to the best ones.
If we spend all our time imagining what could go wrong we would never try anything, balance is important.

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Children must at some point experience fire first-hand, but that's a virtually guaranteed learning experience the first time. When an adult makes a bonehead mistake they should have outgrown in adolescence I hope they learn, but I also wonder if the reason they're still making that mistake is because they lack the capacity to learn.
More likely they are or were insulated from consequences of their actions.
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