On numerous occasions, I remember my mother saying “Experience is the Best Teacher.” I did a little digging and found that the great Roman leader Julius Caesar recorded the earliest known version of this proverb, “Experience is the teacher of all things,” (c. 52 B.C.). But my favorite rendition of this expression is from the J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece, “The Fellowship of the Ring,” where he penned these words that I have quoted over and over…
I am a firm believer that “the burned hand teaches best,” experience; especially the mistakes are the best teachers. I have learned far more from my failures then I ever did from my successes. I think that is because, when embarrassment, disappointments or pain happens in our lives, the brain registers, and remembers that emotion much clearer than our greatest victory. Mistakes and failures are going to happen, and sometimes we may have to take a couple steps back, and regroup in order to move forward again, but the key is, don’t miss this…that if we learn from our “burned hand,” we will end up becoming far wiser and stronger had the failure never happened!
The question is, what will you do when failure happens?
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Thank you for your feedback. DO you have any thoughts? Perhaps “The Burnt Hand Teaches Best?” What do you think?
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I really appreciate you taking the time to post about this. I found it compelling enough to post to my Facebook and Twitter.
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Thank you so much for those kind words!! I am glad to hear that God is using what he gave me to speak to you!! Thank you for sharing too!! God Bless!!
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