Do U think, life experiences R learning opportunities, & if U do, do U expect to become wiser for having them?

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This Q is part of a series of Q's I have asked exploring the meaning of & contrasting the concepts of wisdom and ignorance w/o trying to abstractly define them. It appears both concepts raise people's hackles when brought into the philosophy arena.

small point we always learn something about ourselves and our world whether we fail or succeed. Failure hurts us more and we tend to take our successes lightly. But both teach if we are open to learning why we failed or succeeded.

Answer 1

Yes, and I do learn from them because hindsight is 20/20, but I also look at what the situation was like, and I may not repeat the same actions even though at the time they were right, but now they aren't. You learn timing. There is a time for this and a time for that. It really is your mind set and how you choose to view things, adapting. I hope you understand what I am trying to say, but that's philosophy, and there's always room for arguments here:)

Answer 2

Interesting question!

Definitely yes. Experience is the best teacher. Experience is by no means the only field to which our understanding can be confined. Experience tells us what is, but not that it must be necessarily what it is and not otherwise. It therefore never gives us any really general truths. And our reason, which is particularly anxious for that class of knowledge, is roused by it rather than satisfied. General truths, which at the same time bear the character of an inward necessity, must be independent of experience - clear and certain in themselves. That is to say, they must be true no matter what are later experience may be. True even before experience, true a priori. Indeed it has proven time immemorial that man's experience makes a better and wiser person. It molds a person true to its form that anyone would want it to be. We learn from our past and use this as a mirror to change ourselves for the better.

Thanks for asking. Have a great day!

Answer 3

i think many life experiences are/can be learning experiences, we may learn new things, or unlearn/question things we thought we new, sometimes being left with a feeling we know nothing about a subject, there are also, to me, some life experiences that may not have an impact on us, or else leave us in a sort of state of shock, and we just then block out that experience
but all in all, yes our experiences make us wiser, even the ones which make us question most all we think we know
i believe deep wisdom is feeling strongly in the things you know, while realizing you very well may change/alter/reject that view tomorrow, and that not everyone agrees with you and that in itself doesnt make them wrong. and this state of being can be achieved by life experience if one keeps an open mind

Answer 4

I don't think life experiences are learning opportunities but I learn from many of them and become wiser I have also found that my experiences and my openness and honesty about them have been lessons for others and help full in helping others see them selves through similar situations.

Answer 5

I am 75 years old and know I am a wiser and better person than I was at 20 because of life's experiences.

Answer 6

I was just reading an article, by Thomas K. Ockler, that spoke of how to become an expert at anything. It said that we become experts by making mistakes. So yes, I believe that, life experiences or mistakes are definite learning tools. My belief is the only way that they cannot be used is in the event of denial. the non-ability to see the parts we play in our life experiences. When we are able to see or are willing to see ourselves in the "scheme" of things, we can grow from it.

Answer 7

The answer to your first question is yes. I think that if you don't become wiser from them then the experience was a waste of time and you remain stagnant.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

NO!