![]() ![]() Clever or inaccurate rascals that we are, we find that purposefully emphasized or embellished facts may serve better to transmit our point. This recounting of past events can create at least an indirect experience for the listener that, with empathy and imagination, approaches reality. But how effective would that be? What we seem do try to do instead is to pass on our own experiences not by lecture, but by story. Now I suppose that a parent could hand down a list of dos and don’ts. We refer, of course, to that which aids survival and not the luxury of academics. ![]() Therefore there must be efficient and judicious ways to pass on vital information. However, and most likely, fortunately, we cannot learn all that we need first hand. The knowledge gained directly through rewards, bruises, and bare escapes probably form the strongest part of the foundation of how we perceive the world. We all know that if people can learn anything at all, they will learn by experience. ![]()
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