Experience is a Hard School
January 27th, 2011 by Adam G.
Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.
I’ve read that in testing, the only folks who accurately evaluate how others rate their skills and attractiveness are the clinically depressed.
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January 27th, 2011 13:31:26
S.P. Bailey
January 28, 2011
Nothing sharpens the senses like failure. And yet … skepticism is often self-fulfilling, and seemingly irrational beliefs about oneself and the world (faith!) can change the bounds of possibility.
S.P. Bailey
January 28, 2011
Or in other words: suffering and its perspective is the best teacher I never seek out.
Adam Greenwood
January 28, 2011
S.P. Bailey,
that last is quoteworthy. I like it!