Not all horses are the same; some, even after repeated whipping, still don’t understand the pain.

Some horses figure it out just by watching another horse get ridden hard.

In the same way, some people insist on stepping into every pit themselves. But others? They take the pits others have fallen into and log them into their own mental database, patching up their own systems along the way.

The pitfalls that trip up the rest of the world can all become their experience.