Every generation refuses to accept the relay of experience

Every generation refuses to simply accept the relay of experience from the previous one. Instead it insists on learning from its own mistakes. Because of this, humanity wastes an enormous amount of time walking a path that has already been walked — and already described in books, in conversations with parents, in the experience of those who are 30 years ahead. The root of the problem is ego. "I'm special", "it will be different for me", "they didn't get it, but I will". You won't. Because it's the same rake. The law of gravity doesn't care who falls. The mistake that cost your father 10 years will cost you the same 10 years — unless you listen. The cheapest way to learn — from other people's mistakes. The most expensive — from your own. The dumbest — from no one's, when you do the same thing again and are surprised by the result. If someone tells you "don't do this, I've been through it" — that's not a limit on your freedom, that's a gift. Ten years of your life saved. To accept it or reject it — your choice. But the price of rejection only becomes visible 10 years later, when it's already too late.