Just A Thought ~ LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE

"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."

~ Aldous Huxley, 1894 - 1963, Critic & Novelist ~

Our likes and dislikes, preferences and predispositions, prevent us from learning from our experiences what might be learned; in the words of Simon and Garfunkel's old song, The Boxer, we "...see just what we want to see, and disregard the rest." Therefore, experience is less important than what we might learn from it; some people would learn much more than others from a similar experience; some people, like buffaloes, would learn almost nothing. And so, to say of someone: "He's had so much experience," might not mean as much as we take it to mean.