Learning From Past Experiences

Depending on the situation I am in, I can tell whether or not that i have learned from my experiences. It also depends on my state of mind, my mood or how I'm feeling. Because I feel that it is a challenge for anybody to learn from an experience when they are annoyed, angry or just tired. It's best to be cleared minded and focus when you are trying to take what you gained from an experience to heart. Another factor that can determine how much you can get out of an experience is who or what you learn it from. It's a lot easier to accept that you learned something from people who you can tolerate and enjoy being around with versus people who you don't get along with. I mean you can learn from people who you aren't fond of, but you would conceal the fact that the person you dislike actually taught you something. Or you can learn from other people's mistakes, and it's more accepting when you learn a lesson from the person you don't like. Because you witness the person, who you can't stand, slip-up. This may also include people who you don't know. If you see someone mess up, you say to yourself "I'm glad that's not me" or "I'm not doing that". I believe that you can also learn from an experience unknowingly. A great example of this is anything dealing with trial and error. For instances, you are given three different colored boxes. In one of them contains a coin. You go through and open each box, the ones that don't have the coin, you know that you'll have to avoid those colored box. You based your pick on the right box by eliminating the boxes that you have already looked through. Trial and error can also apply to those who are practicing techniques on certain physical exercises. Similar to gymnasts training on their flips and handstands. They repeat the technique until they get a sense of balance and trust for their body. And in no time they are able to perfect their performance.

As for me and how I learn from experiences, well there's a mix of learning from my own experience and learning from others. I can remember learning from other people better than remembering what I learn on my own. Aside from that, whenever I acquire a new skill or idea, my view of the world changes. I believe that in life change in one's self is inevitable. You are who you are through what you experience. So I don't see that it is a concern if learning is transformative or that beliefs may be altered. You learn what feels write to you and if you don't agree you do research until you are right or until you are totally convince of whatever the answer may be. I also think that everyone has a unique way of learning lessons, or that's what everyone wants to believe. Nobody wants to learn a life-changing lesson the same way as another, they want learn it in an exceptional way. And so I judge others of how they learn differently than myself. However, I view that learning involving logic is different. To me logic is step by step and there is usually only one way to arrive to an answer. So yeah, there are somethings that I can talk to others about and somethings that I can't.