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It would be nice if it did, but that's not how experience works.

Which is to say that yes, we can learn from the mistakes of powers, and the story is worth telling.

For 99% of people, who want safety and security, they'll just ho get a job anyway. For the 1% who want to start something new, well 4 in 5 will fail either 5 years. Those failures are the experience needed to find success. Some get there quicker, some abandon good ideas too quickly or bad ideas too slowly.

That's how we learn along the way, and yes, absorb the lessons of others.



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