"The wise say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn anything one way or another; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering. And I’m definitely in that middle category. I’m an empiricist. IA lot of stuff I have to fail at spectacularly, in person, in order to understand it."

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With the current state of mind, this quote goes really well...

"You can tell yourself that you have already decided, that nothing now can stop you, but if that step backwards is so much safer than step forwards, what will hold you true to your path when the going gets tough? Sometimes, the right thing to do is to take that first irreversible step, the one after which you cannot go back. And now, for you, is one of those times."