Break the Prison of Others' Experience

“But often one is also unsettled by advice from those around them. Then you buy a house that everyone has recommended to you. Or you start a training course that your parents or teachers consider to be forward-looking, but which you yourself are actually not interested in. Many people are trapped in a prison of experience that others have built for them. Some build their own. They must first learn to look through the bars of empiricism in order to discover new fields of action beyond the distant horizon. Sometimes it takes years before one is able to revise empirical decisions and turn to the evident ones.”

“> Don’t let yourself be impressed by any expert who tells you: “My dear friend, I’ve been doing it this way for twenty years!”—You can do something wrong for twenty years, too. > Kurt Tucholsky”