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Originally Posted by shovel
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.
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If we spend all our time imagining what could go wrong we would never try anything, balance is important.
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Originally Posted by shovel
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.
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More likely they are or were insulated from consequences of their actions.