Observing the Wind
The 17th-century British philosopher John Locke once said: “Knowledge is power.” Nevertheless, “Everything we know is gained from experience.” In other words, we gain mastery of a thing from doing, and not from knowing. Experience therefore is omnipotent. Indeed, it is by degree that we become whatsoever we desire to be. However, another school of thought holds it that if one learns from the experiences of others, a mistake, so to say, one won’t repeat. It’s an alternative way of saying, those who cannot learn from history are fated to repeat it. The last statements buttress the importance of learning from experience. The challenge however is, there is among an increasing few a tendency to forge or rather who have forged their future from the experiences of people of little minds, people of low mentality, and people whose object of life has been shaped by circumstance and condition. To that effect, they seek approbation from the opinions and paradigms of dysfunctional group...
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