Will Rogers said the phrase this is paraphrasing.

Good judgement comes from experience and a lot of that comes from poor judgement

Yeah, but sometimes a bad judgement can cost you so much that you will never recover enough to use whatever you learned.

Case in point, Richard Nixon from the picture. (I know it’s from Frost/Nixon movie, and that’s Frank Langella)

You can mitigate the bad decisions by learning from those who came before you. That is why university education is so important.

This is exactly why we should never treat each other with contempt, scorn and punishment. People make wrong decisions all the time, some not so bad, some much worse. But at the end of the day, we all have the same capacity to make the wrong decisions. The more space we create for others (and ourselves) to learn from them and grow, the more we improve the world.

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A 1987 Michael J Fox film.

My grandfather used to say, "An expert is someone that fucked up everything at least once, but managed to learn from it. A fool just fucks up." He was an eloquent man.

This seems a bit Pollyanna-ish, unfortunately.

I agree with you, but it only applies to people acting in good faith. Some people are genuinely motivated by anti-social impulses or downright malevolence. Some people are just unreasonable.

Yeah, some people intentionally or apathetically make the wrong decisions

Not just University education, but observing those around you. I grew up in a high crime rate area, loads of people constantly making the sane mistakes now either dead or in prison, many say they need to make those bad decisions to gain wisdom. Learn from others.

This is what useless answers look like.

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