Experience ≠ Lessons

Better and Better                                                                                                Day 47

      “ Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him ”, says Huxley, the author of Brave New World. The truth is that if you can’t learn lessons from experiences, that the experiences will be useless. It’s easy to say that one can learn from another, but once there there is luck, it is very difficult to practice deliberately. In life, as long as the relationship between certain operations and rewards is fixed, we can quickly adapt to it. But if the relationship becomes random, we will be at a loss. In the face of randomness, we are unable to establish connections between actions and out comes. Once there is luck, it is hard to think of lessons.               

      《美麗新世界》的作者赫胥黎有句名言：“經驗不是一個人身上所發生的事；而是人對他身上所發生的事的作爲”。這個道理是如果你不能從經驗中吸取教訓，那經驗再多也沒用。喫一塹長一智這個話好説，但一旦有運氣因素，刻意練習就非常困難。在生活中，衹要某種操作和獎勵的關係是固定的，我們就能很快適應。但是如果把這種關係變成隨機的，我們就會不知所措。面對隨機性，我們很難在行動和結果之間建立聯係。一旦有運氣成分，人們就很難想到還要吸取教訓。

                                                                                                            Oct.10th ,2018                                                                                                                  Bazhou.