The value of experience is as much what it takes out of your head as what it puts in. That's why it's hard to use books or lectures as a substitute for it. I wish someone had told me this when I was 20 and indignant that every job required "experience."
Hence the continuing fascination and relevance of Thucydides and Tacitus, and of the culture they sired of scrupulous striving to eschew self-deception in the analysis of high-stakes past attempts to construe experience. This culture and its living repositories matter vastly.
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The more access one has to it, and to those living masters who embody and promulgate it, the better. The less access one has to it, the more prone one is to grievous error.
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