Name: 閱歷是人生最好的老師？► 那是個愚蠢的說法... - John C. Maxwell 約翰．麥斯威爾（中英字幕）
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If experience was the best teacher, everybody got older, everybody get better.

If you had spent one hour a day, every day, on one subject for five years, you could become an expert on that subject.

So I said, wow, I want to become an expert.

And when I started that process, I was thinking five years, I was kind of like doing countdown, five years, four years, three years, but something happened to me about halfway through that five-year process.

Instead of asking myself, how long will it take?

One day I began to realize, and I stopped asking the question, how long will it take?

And I started asking the question, how far can I go?

I realized that you can set goals and have five-year goals, whatever, but I changed from a goal mindset to a growth mindset.

Growth allows you to continue to expand yourself and your world until there's just so much more that you know and so much more that you want to share.

I used to say experience is the best teacher, and then one day I woke up and said, that's a stupid statement, John.

If experience was the best teacher, then everybody got older, everybody get better.

And yet I know a lot of people, they're getting older and they're not getting better.

And so I stop and I say, okay, it's not the experience that's the best teacher, it's evaluating that experience.

Reflection turns experience into insight.

After every experience, I have to pull away, and I have to ask myself, okay, what did I learn from that?

When we'd have experiences with our children, I would always ask them two questions after every experience.

What did you learn and what did you love?

And for a kid, in fact, I'd really ask them, what did you love, what did you learn?

I would say, no, what did you learn from that?

Till probably by the time they were 10, after every experience, they'd just say, okay, here's what I loved and here's what I learned.

Well, what I taught my children to do is evaluate every experience because if I don't stop and reflect and evaluate out of that experience, I will do the same thing next time.

And that's not what is where the growth is.

The growth is always in learning and evaluating, and not only evaluating, but learning is overrated unless you improve.

So I mean, it's more than what did I just learn out of that, what do I do out of that that I improve my life with?