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{{quote|''"A learning experience is one that tells you, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'"''|'''[[Douglas Adams]]'''}}
Some people [[Badass Bookworm|learn by reading]]. Some people [[
The human mind is an interesting thing. When we put our hand on a hot burner or put a penny in a lightsocket, what's left of us tends to not want to do that anymore. We learn from our mistakes.
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Characters in a story usually begin their journey with little actual experience in the [[Real Life|real world]]. Somewhere along the way, they figure out how to manage. There is usually something either said or implied that being in a constant life or death situation has forced them to find some way to survive. By default, they usually become damn good at it.
When the time for action has come, the time for preparation has passed. Sometimes your [[Training from Hell]] is not enough. Other times you have no training whatsoever. This is often how someone [[Took a Level in Badass]]. Some are so good at this that they are [[Awesomeness By Analysis|Awesome By Analysis]] and become an [[Instant Expert]]. Maybe, somewhere along the line, they learned [[I Know Mortal Kombat|Mortal Kombat.]]
This is a staple of [[MacGyvering]], the devices they make work because they ''have'' to. The [[Crazy Prepared]] person is either this way because of past experience, or because they want to avoid the bruises associated with it. And this is implied with a person who has [[Seen It All]]—they have experienced it personally.
[[Truth in Television]]: want to learn German, live in Germany. Want to learn Japanese, go to Japan. Git gud or else, like a mundane version of [[Die or Fly]]. Hard work is still needed to get to a well
In [[Video Games]], especially RPGs, this is what they are trying to replicate with [[Experience Points]], especially in the more complicated leveling methods where [[Stat Grinding|performing an action repeatedly gives you more points to allocate to that skill area]].
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** Ironic as he kept using Pikachu on Team Rocket, despite them using something that's shock proof (which they've done since, what, the fifth time he faced them? Out of [[Over Nine Thousand]]?) As Meowth pointed out in one episode, "You'd think he'd learn by now".
* ''Vagabond'' is about how [[Miyamoto Musashi]] goes from a naturally gifted [[Hot-Blooded|hothead]] to a true [[Badass]] ''after'' he gains experience, being humbled before overcoming the challenge; when he's going {{spoiler|to fight all of the remaining Yoshioka}}, he actually thanks them (silently and by himself with a silent prayer) for giving him the past year to learn, develop and grow.
* Generally, most of the cast in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' opt for [[Training from Hell]] (with the occasional [[
{{quote|''"Surviving for hundreds of years ain't just for show, you know."''|Chachazero}}
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** After Negi's and {{spoiler|Rakan's}} match, some of the fans started quarreling about who was better. A fight broke out. Onlookers started betting on the outcome. {{spoiler|The draw had the highest stake.}}
* Parodied in ''[[Ranma ½]]'', where Genma wanted to teach Ranma the legendary [[Unstoppable Rage|Cat Fu]] martial arts style. Being unfamiliar with its methods, he decided to wrap Ranma in bacon and sausage and throw him into a bin filled with starving cats. Ranma learned nothing (at least at first) and in fact gained a crippling phobia of cats because of it. It was later shown that he did learn Cat Fu, but has to go into a psychotic break-down from his cat phobia to reach it unconsciously.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Steve Irwin aka the [[Crocodile Hunter]] learned most of what he knew about wildlife, especially crocodiles and snakes, from his father and from working with and growing up around them in his family's wildlife park from a very young age.
* Bruce Lee developed the
** One of his instructors, Kenpo Grandmaster Ed Parker, was fond of teaching with this trope and even used it on Lee. One time when Lee was practicing a stance, Parker insisted the stance didn't work and showed him by repeatedly knocking him over with a wooden board saying if his stance worked, the board would not knock him over. Lee quickly let Parker show him an alternate stance to use.
** This applies to martial arts or any other kind of melee combat in general. Getting jumped for real and having to make someone kiss the asphalt before he does it to you is, for better or for worse, the fastest but potentially most painful way of learning what really works in a fight and what doesn't. Even for the rest of us who would rather not risk getting mugged or beaten to death, while the ring or octagon with its rules and referees might still fall short of what a "real" fight is like, full-contact, full-speed sparring against noncompliant opponents is still better than just doing drills and forms, because no amount of the latter will remotely recreate what it's like to actually face someone who won't obediently stand still after the first blocked punch and let you finish a complex choreographed combo, but will instead do his best to punch you in the face.
* The British Navy in the 18th and early 19th centuries put men off the streets aboard its ships of war and left it up to the officers to train them for sailing and combat. Likewise, midshipmen went aboard as children and were taught the requisite mathematics, navigation, and seamanship required to see them past their promotional exams by senior officers or, if they were unlucky, a schoolmaster or chaplain of some description.
* This is also why licensing for certain trades, including electricians, plumbers, and HVACers (at least commonly in the USA), requires one not only to pass a fairly lengthy test, but to have an already licensed master electrician, plumber, or HVACer vouch that you've had 2 years of apprenticeship working on the job under them. There're some things you can only learn by making that mistake on the job and having someone more experienced there to explain what went wrong/help you straighten out the mess/call the ambulance.
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** And, to be honest, the degree is just a tool to get one's foot in the door. If you've had the aforementioned experience and spent several of those years of experience being taught by a working chef, you can skip the degree.
* [[MythBusters|Adam Savage's]] mantra: "failure is always an option", which he explains as meaning that even a failure is data that we can learn from.
* Why every middle- or highly-placed job demands a certain number of years of experience in a relevant field. No amount of education or training, no matter how thorough the teaching, roleplaying and assessment provided, can fully capture all the hard lessons that can only be learnt through doing the work for real.
* [[Quentin Tarantino]] never went to film school - everything he learned came from making a film with his friends when he worked at a film archive, as well as [[Taught by Television|watching the crap out of his favourite films.]]
* The famous Edison quote: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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