Phrase: Learn the hard way
From time to time, we have to learn something the hard way.
Experience is the best teacher.
Yes, we can learn from books or by asking questions, but forgetting what we have acquired is easy if the learning did not leave a strong impression.
Making mistakes, however, is the hard way to learn, and mistakes leave an impression.
Once bitten, twice shy – learning the hard way is, well, hard.
That’s why it’s called learning the hard way.
The next time you make a mistake try not to become too upset.
Think about it as learning the hard way and wish you had paid more attention in school.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 81.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.