Benefit from others' experience
The way to learn at no cost without wasting your own time 'Life
experience' is experience that is crucial for people to build a
successful and happy life.
Experience facilitates better decision making and more effective
application to increase the rate of success. Rather than learning life
experience through your own trials and wild attempts, it is wiser,
easier and less costly to learn through others' experience.
Limited opportunities
You have heard the saying, 'experience is your best teacher'. If you
wait to only learn from your own experience, it's only one teacher you
can learn from, whereas if you develop the habit of learning from others
too, then you have more than one teacher to learn from which would
facilitate faster learning and also give you a much broader perspective.
Although this kind of experience may not be as pure as the one you
will experience yourself, it is quite useful, given that each individual
has limited opportunities of their own. Mixing and matching your own
experience with the learned experience of others around you can make you
an accurate judge.
Observe and reflect
Typically, you have to wait for regular life events to happen to gain
experience of your own. You life experience is full of failures and
successes, with this; you can learn from the mistakes to prevent them
from recurring and the successes to reproduce them more frequently for
repeated benefits.
Sometimes you have to embrace life and then conquer it to gain that
particular life experience. In the quest of learning, other people's
successes and mistakes is the perfect case to study on. We learn a lot
through the trials and journeys of others and our mind can simulate the
words and actions from those scenarios and outcomes. Looking back at the
past can help find the answers to your future. It's important to
remember the consequences of different actions in the past. The
principle is that everything else being constant, you are sure to have
the same result by repeating the same action. Learn life experience
through others' by observation and yourself by reflection.
Failure due to lack of experience
The consumer is common in many instances for a variety of products
and service offers. Attitudes, behaviour, desires and the way the
consumers respond to various strategies and offers can be the same.
Identification of these common buyer-behavior and learning from the
experiences of other businesses and marketers can reduce your research
and experiment cost and the time spent.
While learning is an important aspect for business success, cost of
failure is an absolute waste. You can improve your business learning
curve by carefully analysing data from those who've already "been there
and done that." You can learn to learn from their experience - whether
that experience is good or bad.
Learn from others
Learning from others' experience can be applied to buying products or
acquiring anything you want; everything from bread to an automobile,
choosing a career, becoming successful in business, selecting a marriage
partner or raising children.
For a business; which media mix is best for a premium priced consumer
brand? How does the common consumer respond to a discount promotion?
You can benefit from others' experience in just about any area -
eating healthy, doing studies, taking a vacation, buying or selling your
home, being happy or creating a life of abundance and wealth. It's not
about learning from role models but from common people.
Why not give it a try and start mastering the art of learning from
others' experience the next time you have an important purchase or an
exciting adventure in front of you?
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