Experience
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Experience is knowledge a person gets by doing something or watching someone else do it. Experience is learning through actions. Someone can gain experience from someone else telling them what they have experienced.
Some religious groups and teaching methods value learning by experiencing. For example, if someone want to learn about the game Chess, they would go and play several games of Chess. By making mistakes and learn from them, they learn more rather just reading about playing Chess.
[change] Types of experience
Experience is often divided into four types:
| Type | Example |
|---|---|
| Body | A physical activity like riding a bicycle |
| Mind | A mental activity like playing Chess |
| Heart | Learned from dealing with emotional situations like being in love |
| Soul | spiritual learning by prayer |
Someone who experienced by watching or doing something himself is said to have had first-hand experience.
When the first person tells another person, the other person has had second-hand experience.
[change] Proverbs about Experience
- "Only the foolish learn from experience — the wise learn from the experience of others." Romanian Proverb. (Fools go out, make their own mistakes and learn from them. Smart people learn from others' mistakes.)
- "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." Benjamin Franklin (Fools don't learn in school from textbooks or teachers. Fools learn from their own mistakes. They can't learn this in a school classroom.)
