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Originally Posted by BobbyCooper
Life-Experience is something you can only get when you move around, do all kinds of Jobs, travel in all kinds of countries and perhaps study aboard.. far away from your actual home and beloved ones. Travel to countries where your mother tongue isn't the first language for example, away from your close friends and try to get along there by your own.
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I don`t think there was any negativity directed toward life experience in itself. I think that the point Acjama was trying to make was that it seems like formal education and life experience are mutually exclusive. As in, if you have one you cannot have the other.
That makes no sense, as obviously the best case scenario is to have life experience backed by a formal education. Both can only take you so far...
Given the choice though, I would choose someone with just a formal education over someone with nothing but life experience. Life experience is helpful, but I don`t think it can replace an education.
An example to illustrate this;
A does B.
1. Life Experience - A does B, because every time I`ve done A, it has resulted in B.
2. Formal Education - A does B almost all of the time, and here are the actual reasons. But the more reliable, 100% option would be AAC does B so let`s do that to be safe.
3. Formal Education + Life Experience - A does B most of the time, and will suffice in almost all cases. But if it doesn`t work, toss another A and a C in there and we can get it doing B for sure.
Sure, 1 may encounter a time when A doesn`t do B - but without the education they likely won`t know why and won`t know what to do to counter it. 3 is the best choice, followed by 2 and then 1.