Bought sense is better than told sense

Bought sense is better than told sense. A proverb I hear from my wife everyday. If I had a penny for every lesson someone tried to teach me, that I then had to learn on my own; I would be a very wealthy man.

What lessons have you learned that would have been easier if you had listened to someone else?

Mine would be we are all subject to something and someone. Like all youth I thought I was an adult and nobody could tell me what to do. I was wrong and found it the hard way.

I never would have picked up the bottle. I assumed I wouldn't be like this or that person. Well, I ended up just like them. I definitely learned the hard.

Thanks for sharing this lesson. There are things that can only be taught from experience.