Chapter 20 Valuable experience

All human wisdom and knowledge are nothing more than accumulated bit by bit from living experience.The evolution of the entire human race from barbarism to civilization is a record of experience.New creations and inventions are also based on the old experience of the previous people, so it is said that green comes out of blue and weed out the old to bring forth the new. Therefore, there is a famous saying: knowledge is the accumulation of experience. The younger generation respects experience, which means respecting the value of knowledge; when young people reach old age, they have richer experience and experience, or have been revised or introduced new ones, and their experience remains the most useful, which can help the next generation of youth.

However, there are some young people in this era who do the opposite. They don’t listen to their parents’ experience and teaching at home; they don’t respect the experience and guidance of their elders outside, and even regard the principles of their parents and elders as outdated.As a result, a lot of deviant phenomena emerged, and the result was either a mess, or a lot of wrong roads but still failed to achieve the goal, and even parents or elders had to come out to clean up the mess! I still remember a certain person who founded a large-scale organization and favored young people very much. His slogan was that experience can be created without experience.Due to the excessive indulgence of the young people, the few experienced and well-educated stable people are helpless. They can only watch on the sidelines and let a group of young men be arrogant, arrogant and reckless. As a result, experience is created, but career is also destroyed It was a mess, it couldn't be supported, and it ended badly.

Since then, I have never heard this person mention his proud slogan, but only said: Now I have experience.However, time is running out, and there is no chance to try again! If the truth of the saying that knowledge is the accumulation of experience can be established, then disrespecting experience means disrespecting knowledge; disrespecting knowledge is tantamount to blindness, and the probability of success is even smaller. This also verifies Bacon's famous saying: ignorance or knowledge error is the poison of career. Most Westerners are willing to trust experts when they encounter problems.What is an expert?He may or may not be a scholar, but he must be the most experienced person.There is a story that a certain industrial city in the United States had a power outage for several days. Several electrical engineering doctors were invited, but they couldn’t find the reason. In a hurry, they invited a retired old master. Shine light.It shows that experience is more valuable than knowledge.

Another example is that the helmsman of river navigation and port navigation is an older person with experience, but if the younger generation does not respect experience and disdain to accept guidance, how can they pass on teaching?