Experience
Experience is knowledge a person gets by doing something or watching someone else do it. Experience is learning through actions.
Some religious groups and teaching methods value learning by experiencing. For example, if someone wants to learn about the game Chess, they would play several games. By making mistakes and learning from them, they learn more rather than just reading about playing.
Types of experience [change]
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 emotions like being in love |
| Soul | spiritual learning by prayer |
Someone who experienced by watching or doing something himself is said to have first-hand experience.
When one person tells another person, the other person has second-hand experience.
When an experience is felt or enjoyed through imagined participation, the person has had a "vicarious experience".
A religious experience is a spiritual event seen by someone. Holy books like the Bible talk about visions or dreams where men like Moses, Daniel or Jesus met God. Mystics also describe these events, and offer advice. William James wrote a famous book about the kinds of religious experience.
Proverbs about Experience [change]
- "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 do not learn in school from textbooks or teachers. Fools learn from their own mistakes. They can not learn this in a school classroom.)
Other websites [change]
- http://www.primeguru.com (Site discontinued) Learn from other's experiences and let others learn from your experiences
