Last week, we started on a journey that I called “The Wale Rules” – some of the things that I have picked up along the way in my life, a number of them in a very hard way.
I believe that experience is not the best teacher. It is the most painful. It is the best teacher when it is someone else’s experience.
Our primary goal should be to learn by instruction. When that fails, then we have to learn by experience.
The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. The fool insists on making his own.
We are where we are not because we were perfect, but because we learnt from our imperfections. That which we learn, we are able to share.