What is the main lesson you have learned so far during your life?

Question

The most important lesson I have learned is that if you want to accomplish something the only person you can depend on is yourself. The second most important lesson I have learned is that no one, but yourself, can define who you trully are, no matter how much they think they can.

What about you?

Answer 1

1) You can only depend on yourself to make things right or wrong in your life

2) True love is something our parents and grandparents experienced

3) To get where you want to be. you need to only rely on yourself and no one else

4) You need to take responsibility for your own actions and not blame someone else.

5) You are in control of your own destiny and future-------make the best of it!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

I don't know definitely but I would have thought you would get an automatic fail. One of the points of a driving test is to make sure you can continue to drive safely under stressful conditions - it isn't always safe to stop or pull over so that is not an option. Now driving tests are stressful for everyone and obviously you are getting additional stress on top. You do need better stress coping techniques whilst driving. Would it help during the test if you had an interpreter in the car to give you directions? That might be an option. What about practicing having someone give you instructions when you are not driving as well so you become used to this and then you can combine it with driving? I admire your positive attitude immensely.

Answer 3

Outstanding question... though I must say that life's full of lessons and only ONE main lesson doesn't quite fit the bill. I have more than one main lesson, yours being one of them. We also need to understand how we arrive at our beliefs. One main lesson which centers upon our beliefs, is this:

SEEING IS DECEIVING.

You may have heard the expression "Seeing is believing." Rather, say to yourself, "Seeing is deceiving." This follows the same lines of thought from what Socrates meant when he said, "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."

Apply this philosophy to everything you see, even "facts" you read in scientific textbooks or encyclopedias. If a person tells you, for example, that deteriorating eyesight cannot be reversed, ask yourself this question: is this based on a fact or a theory that has gone unchallenged? Although Wikipedia is a collection of what people believe to be facts, you can see that the base foundation of the optometry industry is based on dubious grounds:

"[Helmholtz's] theory of accommodation went unchallenged until the final decade of the 20th century."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_von_Helmholtz

This is based on a theory from 1850, that by itself has deceived billions of people into thinking deteriorating eyesight cannot be reversed. And it's gone unchallenged for nearly 150 years. Yet, Wikipedia isn't 100% correct there. A prominent eye doctor named William Bates (who also discovered adrenalin) challenged Helmholtz's theory and already discovered a major flaw, way back in 1920. So this theory was likely to be first challenged in the 1920s, not the 1990s as Wikipedia has just falsely claimed.

So be on your guard about whatever you read. Some people may have tried to challenge things stated as facts, and succeeded, only to be ostracized and unable to convince others to "accept" the truth even though those same people were shown evidence.

Albert Einstein once said, "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." ...so it figures.

Answer 4

One very important thing is be an honest person. If you are honest, you can look anyone in the eye and be at ease .
Help anyone you can the best you can when you can. There will come a time where you will need help and someone, or something will help you back. (Don't help others for this reason though. Do it genuinely).
Don't think bad of somebody who's coming across as rude to you. They might just be having a real bad day.
Certainly not last but very important. Do what you feel you must do NOW! Say what you must say to someone NOW! Because two things are for sure; You're going to die, and the person you need to say something to is also going to die. And that could be at any mome.................................................................................

Answer 5

There are some really great answers here.The most important lesson I have learned is : take what you have learned, keep an open mind. Find love, generosity, and sympathy and share it as much as you possibly can.

Answer 6

I have often been told through out life to put all things in God's hands and have faith....I have found some people to take this literal...but I have learned that YOU have to get out there and try to achieve whatever its that you are seeking, and THEN, if this isn't the path that God has chosen for you, he will give you signs...you just have to be willing to look for and accept them.

Answer 7

Too much downTime at work has said it better than I ever could.

Her answers 3,4 and 5 are so perfect that if she doesn't get "best answer" I'll create an award for her anyway.

Congratulations Down Time.

Answer 8

Mine has been mostly trying to correct mistakes and it goes too fast. Sort of like being on a PC except for the fast part.

Answer 9

The main lesson I have learned is that I am who I am and God made me that way! Be content!!

Answer 10

Wow. Your favorite lesson is almost identical to mine.

The most important thing I have learned is, we are our own best friend, always.
No one knows and understands us like we do.

We should never have to feel alone. We are our own best friend.